Vladimir Nabokov. Guía de Berlín
4 EDEN Every large city has its own, man-made Eden on earth.
If churches speak to us of the Gospel, zoos remind us of the solemn, and tender, beginning of the Old Testament. The only sad part is that this artificial Eden is all behind bars, although it is also true that if there were no enclosures the very first dingo would savage me. It is Eden nonetheless, insofar as man is able to reproduce it, and it is with good reason that the large hotel across from the Berlin Zoo is named after that garden.
In the wintertime, when the tropical animals have been hidden away, I recommend visiting the amphibian, insect,