Beijing, China

by Gary Joseph Cohen  

Uploaded 12 Oct 2009 — 26 favorites

© Gary Joseph Cohen

Not unlike Gregor Samsa in Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphoses,' Beijing awoke one morning from anxious dreams to discover it had become a soft-shelled insect, melancholic and impractical, as most metropolises are; too big to upright itself despite frantic wriggling, though not without its charm and general suspicions, excessive drowsiness or strong appetites.

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