"If the city was
dreaming," he told me, "then the city is asleep.
And I do not fear cities sleeping, stretched out unconscious
around their rivers and estuaries,
like cats in the moonlight. Sleeping cities are tame and
harmless things. What I fear," he said,
"is that one day he cities will waken. That one day the
cities will rise."
~ Neil Gaiman's The Sandman (No. 51)
