I walked head down, pressing my feet down hard on the pavement to push the city under water... With the town sinking at the rate of thirty centimeters a century, I explained, or three millimeters a year, or point zero zero zero zero zero zero one millimeter a second, one might reasonably hope, by pressing our feet down hard on the pavement as we walked, to play some part in the drowning of the town.
-Jean-Philippe Toussaint
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