By: Toby Ferris

I spent many inadvertently formative afternoons watching old British war films.

By: Peggy Nelson

Anatomy of Norbiton by Toby Ferris: Outro

By: Toby Ferris

By night you are a Failed Animal, but to a limited extent free.

By: Toby Ferris

The business of memory is mostly to forget.

By: Toby Ferris

A city is not a microscope, nor are its citizens microbes.

By: Toby Ferris

The world, we can philosophically conclude, is everything that is a mess.

By: Toby Ferris

There is a ball, yes there is a ball; but there is, above all else, an occult disposition.

By: Toby Ferris

The Geography of Hell is well known.

By: Toby Ferris

Clarke proposes that we play a parlour game, which he calls Smash that Image!

By: Toby Ferris

The accidents of life are life, in other words.

By: Toby Ferris

The Ideal City is, like any city, built piecemeal.

By: Toby Ferris

Whatever else, the answer to the problem of failure is most assuredly not success.

By: Peggy Nelson

Toby Ferris and the Anatomy of Norbiton: The Ideal City of the Failed Life