"I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods. For instance, there is a brownstone in the East Seventies where, during the early years of the war, I had my first New York apartment...my spirits heightened whenever i felt in my pocket the key to this apartment; with all its gloom, it still was a place of my own, the first, and my books were there, and jars of pencils to sharpen, everything I needed, so I felt, to become the writer I wanted to be."
I am excited to be living in Brooklyn in a more youthful neighborhood where I might actually meet people outside the business sector, and to have a roommate who doesn't talk finance jargon and whip out fois gras while watching tv (I guess when you're grown up and have a wall st. job, chips and salsa no longer suffice. Fois Gras and airline mergers all round!) But I am also going to miss waking up and stepping out onto my balcony and seeing the statue of liberty. And my air conditioning. and my own bedroom. and cable tv with surround sound. and the little market with mango and strawberry salad. and the 5 train, which is so easy to navigate but does not venture into the outer Burroughs.
it is rainy and foggy here right now, appropriate weather, i think, for saying goodbyes.
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