The Berlin Wall - A Surviving Section (October, 2005)

Toby as a victim of the historical virus could not look at the town without seeing it historically, so to speak - layer after layer of history laid up in slices, embodied in its architecture. There was no corner of the place which did not conjure up for him delicious reveries, vivid associations.
Laurence Durrell, Monsieur (London, 1974, 1984 ed.), p. 83.