The City is a place both literal and symbolic, and the more is your life based in
The City the more real it be.
Men make their own City and The City, its own men.
City Life sustains itself on City Life.
Out on The Plains you can survive on nothing but air.
The purpose of City Life is to gradually make you more efficient;
Plains Existence does it instantly.
The City is smoggy; naught but clean air on The Plains.
The City is din-on-the-hoof.
The Plains is so silent no one ever asks: “What’d you say?”
The City is a place of meaningless concepts, such as: “This is good, but that other is evil.
This is true, that false.”
The Plains is the perspective from which such inanities are seen for what they are.
The City is a place of extremes: it is either too hot, or too cold, too bright or too dark,
too quiet or too loud, too fast or too slow.
Out on The Plains everything is all the time – just right.so right in fact that
any thought to the contrary is unheard of.
Torah, Tora and Symbolic Locations:
The City was the inspiration for the story of Babel; the place Adam ended up, post Eden;
The Plains is where Noah came to rest.
Once you have been on The Plains you have a Plains Mind in addition to your old Original City Mind, and the distance and difference between the two becomes the most important matter in your life.
In The City everyone is constantly at everyone else’s mental throat.
On The Plains all is peaceful, it has to be or there is no one there but you.
The City is a place of much discrimination but little taste.
The Plains has a culture so refined that it is not even noticed.
J.