- Bruno Schulz: In that city of cheap human material, no instincts can flourish, no dark and unusual passions can be aroused. "The Street of Crocodiles" was a concession of our city to modernity and metropolitan corruption. The misfortune of that area is that nothing ever succeeds there, nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Obviously, we were unable to afford anything better than a cardboard imitation, a photo montage cut out from last year's mouldering newspapers. Obviously, we were unable to afford anything better.