This blog and Google maps have been allowing me to conduct a tour of the city. I feel like Tamburlaine standing over his maps, charting the formation of his empire. And all of this electronic information is worth less than the actual experience of standing on a street corner in the real place. That one fleeting moment creating the most profound and unique feeling and memory for all the senses. I may never go to St. Louis, and even if did, how many trips would it take, how many years, before I could claim to know the place?
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