"but they are all the same", paul answers as auggie presents his foto albums, in which he collects more than four thousand pictures of the same place, taken each day by him, at eight o´clock in the morning.
auggie answers smilingly: they are all the same, but each one is different from every other one. you´ve got your bright mornings and your dark morenings. you´ve got your summer light and your autumn light. you´ve got your weekdays and your weekends. you´ve got your people in overcoats and galoshes. and you´ve got your people in shorts and t-shirts. sometimes the same people, sometimes different ones, and the same ones disappear. the earth revolves around the sun, and every day the light from the sun hits the earth from a different angle. (smoke, zitiert aus dem screenplay)
diesmal ein fundstück aus st. petersburg. in einem buchladen am nevskij prospekt, unweit der brücke über die mojka, findet sauseschritt jene ansichtskarten, die offenbar zum jubiläum der stadt st. petersburg produziert wurden: