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raven ([personal profile] raven) wrote2006-09-10 05:38 pm
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Taxation without representation

Have fallen stupidly, spectacularly in love with Boston.

More later, I think. I am taking photos rather than taking notes. I spent today following the Freedom Trail in and around the city, and watching the sailboats on the river, and, later in the day and entirely by accident, I found Boston's memorial for the 9/11 victims. (I didn't realise before, but both of the flights originated in Boston.) It's a room with candles, an endless list of names and water on three sides. Very hard to describe, or to explain the impact of.

I am trying very hard not to think of going back, and how useless my life will be then. Still. I'm in the States for two more days. A little more escapism.

[identity profile] the-acrobat.livejournal.com 2006-09-11 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Wah. I want to go to Boston. It sounds wonderful.

Do say hello to Charles Emerson Winchester III for me, will you?

[identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com 2006-09-13 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It is, it really is! And my first thought on seeing the Charles River was that wonderful episode of M*A*S*H where Winchester goes swimming in it - he can't drown in a river that's named after him... *g*