the city 's populace , in all its diversity , housed in its manifold precincts and juxtaposed - if any cared to look hard enough - with all time and no time , past and future discontinued in favour of here and now , be they dressed as night or day , warm or hot or wet or dry , the countless citizens of this tangibly infinite metropolis breathed a commonality induced by jones and made manifest in a search , a quest not for self but another , friend , family or loved one , real or imagined , a person beyond themselves and yet reachable , attainable , the yearning of hearts and minds given shape , identifiable as a cause .