“new orleans is really haunting in a way that’s very difficult to understand unless you have been lucky enough in your life to have been immersed in it. it has this peculiar magic that i think is composed of the unbelievable cultural diversity, the heat, the traffic, the closeness of the cities, the distinctness of the plants and wildlife, but it’s something more than that too, like the constant ringing of a bell, or the looming sense of what comes next and how the ocean is often invisible but still kind of omnipresent and pressing. how people look after they enter it, and just before.”
