"The expeditions into the dark regions are made vivid with metaphors of light; the darker the streets the deeper the decent seems to be. The depictions of these 'flip-side images' however are dubious in many ways; 'romanticism' and even 'demonic charm' may exist only for the intruders, not for those that live there. News from the world of darkness nevertheless makes it clear that there exists, along-side the sea of light, another picture of the night - and of social reality."

page 64 'Digression: In a New Light/ 2: In the dark' - Nights in the Big City - Joachim Schlor (Reaktion 1998)