returned.
On Thursday i took the 4/5 to grand central. Retreated out the nearest exit and found myself standing in front of the airport shuttle I required. Bought a ticket, boarded a bus 1/2 hour earlier then I had planned to catch.
Riding through midtown, new rock n' roll blaring in my ear, it occurred to me that I had, in that exact instant and not before, fallen in love with new york. It felt like a new crush. Or like the dawning moment when a good friend becomes your crush. It came in a wave.
When I got to the airport a very nice lady named wanda got me a standby ticket on the earlier flight and I boarded an hour early and content.
It was a complete travel success that not even the worse turbulence I've experienced in years or the woman who insisted on hiss-breathing with her hands over her ears in terror, could dislodge. I made an early bus! I kept thinking. I got an earlier flight! This is luck, this is skill, this is navigating the world.
Riding through midtown, new rock n' roll blaring in my ear, it occurred to me that I had, in that exact instant and not before, fallen in love with new york. It felt like a new crush. Or like the dawning moment when a good friend becomes your crush. It came in a wave.
When I got to the airport a very nice lady named wanda got me a standby ticket on the earlier flight and I boarded an hour early and content.
It was a complete travel success that not even the worse turbulence I've experienced in years or the woman who insisted on hiss-breathing with her hands over her ears in terror, could dislodge. I made an early bus! I kept thinking. I got an earlier flight! This is luck, this is skill, this is navigating the world.
posted by good golly at 10:08 AM
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Couple things Good Golly:
Passed through New York and briefly thought of you... not sure how... just a smirk and a glance down the 4/5 to grand central.
Saw Robert Wilson speak. He mentioned Susan Sontag with the richness only a theatre director can possess.
He described her actions as calculated, exact, full of performance but authenticity.
Every time she spoke:
Crowd silences.
Extended Pause.
Match.
Cigarette.
Match to cigarette.
Begin.
He said she was a 'vixen to the end.'
Not sure that sums anything up... but he was trying to compliment.
He spoke with such reverence I could have sworn he was straight:)
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