Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
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Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what’s left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure.

— Don DeLillo, Point Omega
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