“New Orleans and the moon have always seemed to me to have an understanding between them, an intimacy of sisters grown old together, no longer needing more than a speechless look to communicate their feelings to each other. This lunar atmosphere of the city draws me back whenever the waves of energy which removed me to more vital towns have spent themselves and a time of recession is called for. Each time I have felt some rather profound psychic wound, a loss or a failure, I have returned to this city. At such periods I would seem to belong there and no place else in the country.”

– Tennessee Williams, “The Angel in the Alcove”

I love this.  Does anyone have their own similar Moon City or place?

And for the Astro-Fiends, in astro-cartography, the IC/North Node line of Tennessee Williams runs smack-bang through New Orleans. It is also near his Jupiter line.

Image: Georgia O’Keeffe – Yes I know this is New York, not New Orleans but i love this picture and it fits.