Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own...

Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp ache of the frost in the girders of the overhead railway, in the iron-work of balconies, in bridges, tramlines, lamp-standards, latrines. The iron throbs and shrinks, the stone and the bricks ache dully, the plaster is numb.

Christopher Isherwood Quote About Bridges, Iron, Skeletons: Berlin Is A Skeleton Which...

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