It is jarring to walk along Falls Road, a Catholic neighborhood, or along Shankill Road, a Protestant one, and see guard towers, police stations with twenty-foot walls, and barbed wire the Peace Lines that seal off one neighborhood from another.
To the newly arrived visitor, it is jarring to walk down a street in Belfast and see an armored car driving by, in which British soldiers are not merely holding their machine guns but aiming them, moving them slowly along the range of pedestrians.
I learned to do this years ago, when I lived in Houston, where the jolt of air-conditioned air felt particularly jarring after walking through the soupy steam room outdoors.
So don't expect to see fan favourites' Darth Vader, Darth Maul, C3PO or Jar Jar Binks walking around a cinema complex anytime soon.
And perhaps, too, it would be too jarring suddenly to walk into the theater where the assassination took place, after one had already been led to its aftermath.
After some more strange sniffs, they close the jar and start to walk away.
Long walks helped jar me from the depths, but my old iPod had been stolen some time ago, and walking around without music in a strange city made me feel really vulnerable.
So exquisite and lively meanwhile is the feeling of the part affected that it cannot bear the weight of bedclothes nor the jar of a person walking in the room".
The technical difficulties confronting Mr. Baratz were formidable: jarring bus rides, walks across mountain paths as narrow as a shoe, a mule lost to a mountain gorge.
As always, the city's dark past and inviting present provided jarring contrasts: One not atypical walk took me from the Martin-Gropius-Bau modern-art museum to Checkpoint Charlie along the path of the former Wall, then past the former Nazi Reichsbank to the Museum Island, where I stumbled across an outdoor concert by aging pop stars Duran Duran.
