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As a native of Omaha, Nebraska I have experienced some taste of city life. But not really that kind of city life that is associated with the term city life. Rather, I have experienced a mere taste of the "big city life" by living for many years in Millard, a suburb of the moderately sized city of Omaha.
However I do have to say that my fascination lies equally divided between city and rural lifestyles. I do see pros and cons of both and am glad to have been able to experience the two. There is a certain fascination regarding the hustle and bustle of the big city that seems to have developed somewhere around the area of industrialization. Although cramped working class workers living in cheap tenement housing is not my idea of an interesting or fun time. Rather, I find amusing the hustle and bustle of the big city that developed during such a time. The never-ending cycle of life has proved both fascinating and addicting. Due to a now developed twenty-four hour society that we live in it is possible to find anything to do at all hours imaginable.
Unfortunately Lincoln and Omaha do not have such a deeply developed lifestyle such as the much larger and livelier.
And now to get to the point. An all night society is very enjoyable. I personally find great pleasure in walking down the streets of Omaha (downtown in the safe areas-sometimes unsafe) and Millard late at night and finding a myriad of things that are completely different than they are during the day. Furthermore I believe that while I find late night Omaha rather interesting I would be far more amused with what a larger city has to offer. Wandering streets without a purpose or destination, the journey would be all that I desire.

Of course this is just an artist's interpretation of what an awesome semi-unreal night life scene could become. Although who can say what people can or can't do now with technology. Perhaps such an experience is not entirely uncommon nowadays. Or maybe you just need to become an insomniac to truly experience this life.

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"Although word “novel” does not actually spring great words and hopes into my head, but it does bring a sense of travel and imagination with it."
This was said by Meghan Koehn in her blog this previous semester.
As a child in my reading experience I would have been terrified of a novel, particularly those novels that I would find intriguing at this point in my life. The sheer size and volume of a novel would do exactly as Meghan said "not actually spring great words and hopes into my head". I would have found a novel to be something of a chore to read due to my inability to comprehend the work that was put into such a piece. Also I would not be able to view it as a work of art like I now know novels to be. I firmly agree with Meghan and would say that she said it truly eloqently describing a novel as containing "a sense of travel and imagination". This seems to true when I think about it even more.
First off it would be necessary to say that when I first hear the world novel that I think of "The Lord of the Rings". Although when most people talk of the astounding nature of this trilogy they refer to the movies instead of the novels. Unfortunately that is what America and the world has come to with technology available to us. Perhaps the novel as we know it will someday be lost or regarded as we currently think of heiroglyhpics that are embedded upon pyramid walls.
However, the epic nature of the novel has fortunately not yet been dismantled by our society and as such people are free to enjoy the infinite possibilies of journey within a novel. Furthermore one can now utilize technology (which will eventually destroy the novel in my opinion) to enjoy novels.
I would like to conclude this post with an excerpt from the movie version of "The Lord of the Rings" and hopefully people will take my word and see that if the movie was good that the novel version is infinitely more incredible.