![]() ![]() ![]() "And you're telling me," she said finally, "that I've been exiled from my city-for life-because of you?” Nowhere else in the world has the culture, the industry, the population, the thaumaturgy, the languages, the art, the books, the politics, the history … New Crobuzon," she said slowly, "is the greatest city in Bas-Lag."Īnd coming from her, someone without any illusions about New Crobuzon's brutality, or squalor, or repression, the declamation was far more powerful than if it came from any Parliamentarian. It's dirty and cruel and difficult and dangerous-particularly for me, particularly now-but it's my home. ![]() I would never wish to see out my days outside it. "I was always going to return to New Crobuzon. This isn't a city, Johannes it's a parochial little village less than a mile wide, and I do not want it. This is a sideshow! This is something to scare the children! 'The Floating Pirate City'! I don't want it! I don't want to live in this great bobbing parasite, like some fucking pondskater sucking the victims dry. I do not want to live in a curio, Johannes. ![]()
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