The City and The Shadows

On Phantalgia for Places Where I Never Existed

I have never been to The City. Yet I know its streets better than I know some places where I have actually lived. And I have sometimes wondered whether you can feel nostalgia for somewhere that never existed.

I would call it Phantalgia.

I remember the first time I entered it. It was raining. The streets were almost empty, and the light from the windows fell onto the wet stones…