Asphalt Quotes

• Mimicry flows like beauty from Mexico City’s faucets, space and time are relative, and instead of the usual floral-and-stone façade, there’s dahlia and obsidian. In the course of time, what was yesterday a lake of water becomes asphalt today, and the past is a perpetual duplication that drowns the future. Yesterday’s omens come back, the same substance in a different shape. The city is a nagual that becomes a wall of skulls, an intelligent domotique structure: the Huitzilopochtli temple in a cathedral and Castile roses in cactus bouquets. Time is measured simultaneously with the Aztec, Julian, and Gregorian calendars and the cesium fountain atomic clock; the heart of Mexico City is made of mud and green rocks, and the God of Rain continues to cry over the whole country.

  

  Paco Ignacio Taibo II
  • Mimicry
  • Asphalt
  • Green Rocks

• A guy walks into a pub with a lump of asphalt on His shoulder, He says to the bar man give us a pint and one for the road.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Guy
  • Bars
  • Shoulders

• The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.

  

  Charles Reznikoff
  • Street
  • Curves
  • Asphalt

• I saw her fly toward the asphalt and felt a cruel joy. She seemed to me, as she fell, an ugly creature.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Joy
  • Creature
  • Asphalt