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The Teeming Urban Scene
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51 The Teeming Urban scene Oh ha, the crowded city teeming with its million citizens all walking to their many destinies, just everywhere teeming, especially up that street and that one, the weary throngs all teeming wearily, endlessly teeming, even as the day fails and evening falls on my shoulders as I walk through the throngs, and I am not really teeming. This is a big crowd all right and they seem to be urban in their teeming, and new as I am to this populated scene, I can detect the heartbreaking census: there is one person missing from the millions. If she were here, we would teem like crazy in our perfect tiny throng. ...