"A hurricane in Paris."

"Lightning may for an instant set fire to the window-panes. The house does not tremble, however, when thunder rolls. It trembles neither with nor through us. In our houses set close one up against the other, we are less afraid. A hurricane in Paris has not the same personal offensiveness towards the dreamer that it has toward the hermit's house." (Bachelard, "The Poetics of Space," p. 27).

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