By: Toby Ferris

Restless bewilderment, it seems, is our only recourse, our only liberty.

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

My book was called The Roots of Ornament, but I see now that it should have been called The Rootlessness of Ornament.

By: Toby Ferris

We are discussing fortification. More precisely, I am discussing fortification.

By: Toby Ferris

There is, if we are honest, a chorographical drift in all of us.

By: Toby Ferris

The five of us might suddenly be adrift in a lifeboat, having just cast lots to see who eats whom.

By: Toby Ferris

In time, the animating principle of the city will be expressed in an evolved monstrosity…

By: Toby Ferris

…it is a system, let us allow, that is closer to love than we generally care to acknowledge.

By: Toby Ferris

Under certain conditions — in a garden, in the Ideal City, in a garden of the Ideal City — objects of knowledge achieve weightlessness.

By: Toby Ferris

Routines are composed of sub-routines, which are in turn composed of habits.

By: Toby Ferris

Or was I—a deeper or possible more pragmatic fear—merely a clause or a term in someone else’s contract?

By: Toby Ferris

We live in an age where the sky is not dead, but not yet peopled

By: Toby Ferris

And here was a map of it all, illegible, broken, zany, misdirected…

By: Toby Ferris

In the right hands, the proper administration of affairs is an ethical activity.