“Aubrey would like to say a few words.”
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t change since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
A woman decorates palms with flowers during the Palms and Flowers festival in Panchimalco, El Salvador, on May 7, 2017. (Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images)