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If clothing is an extension of our private skins to store
and channel our own heat and energy, housing is a collective
means of achieving the same end for the family or the group.
Housing as shelter is an extension of our bodily heat-control
mechanisms—a collective skin or garment. Cities are an even
further extension of bodily organs to accommodate the needs
of large groups. Many readers are familiar with the way in which
James Joyce organized Ulysses by assigning the various city
forms of walls, streets, civic buildings, and media to the various
bodily organs. Such a parallel between the city and the human
body enabled Joyce to establish a further parallel between
ancient Ithaca and modern Dublin, creating a sense of human
unity in depth, transcending history.
Baudelaire originally intended to call his Fleurs du Mal, Les
Limbes , having in mind the city as corporate extensions of our