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Because sometimes life is far more wonderful than any story.
Via Sullivan, Lewis Lapham talks about life in New York:
On a cloudy afternoon in Central Park I came across two men seated on a bench, each with a fanciful parrot resting on his shoulder, engaged in intense discussion accompanied by decisive gestures and rapid changes of expression. The parrots were identical; the two men were as unlike one another as a ferret and a panda—on the near end of the bench a small and heavily damaged white man in a threadbare raincoat, early seventies, not many teeth, sunken chest, furtive demeanor; at the far end of the bench a handsome and handsomely tailored black man, gold jewelry, stylish hat and brocade vest, broad-gauged grin, majestic presence.
In answer to my questions, I was told that the parrots were the only two of their particular species ever to have made it north of the Panama Canal, that the two men had met by accident while out walking their birds on 125th Street, that each had come to regard the other as the only man in America with whom it was possible to hold an important conversation.
On a cloudy afternoon in Central Park I came across two men seated on a bench, each with a fanciful parrot resting on his shoulder, engaged in intense discussion accompanied by decisive gestures and rapid changes of expression. The parrots were identical; the two men were as unlike one another as a ferret and a panda—on the near end of the bench a small and heavily damaged white man in a threadbare raincoat, early seventies, not many teeth, sunken chest, furtive demeanor; at the far end of the bench a handsome and handsomely tailored black man, gold jewelry, stylish hat and brocade vest, broad-gauged grin, majestic presence.
In answer to my questions, I was told that the parrots were the only two of their particular species ever to have made it north of the Panama Canal, that the two men had met by accident while out walking their birds on 125th Street, that each had come to regard the other as the only man in America with whom it was possible to hold an important conversation.
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I do love London, though I know you don't live there (right? I'm not sure you even live in England at all)... it feels more like home than any other place in the world I've been.
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Well I figure it's not famous for nothing!
I do love London, though I know you don't live there (right? I'm not sure you even live in England at all)...
I *do* live in England, yes, and even lived in London for 3 years. Lovely place, but EXPENSIVE!
it feels more like home than any other place in the world I've been.
That I can well imagine! :)
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And I've never been to Oxford and am now jealous! ;)
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Oxford is amazing in the old books and buildings and all that amazingness, but as a city it's just normal. No underground, which is very inconvenient. ;)
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And you've not put me off Oxford at all, although I'm sure living there is less romantic than just visiting.
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lol! No, of course not. Maybe I'll post some pics of the University Parks in the Winter because it absolutely is romantic living there (in between the cars and the buses and the many bikes). It really is lovely and amazing and I want to go back there to live more than almost any other place in the world. :) (I'd like to give.a stab at Moscow or St. Petersburg too- can you tell I'm a city girl?)
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Yes, yes they are! (When they're not driving me mad...)
And I'd love to see your pictures from Oxford! City girls ftw!
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I'll have to do that.
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Yes, and sometimes way more amusing.
What a quaint, cute snippet of life.
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Thanks for putting a smile on my face.
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Aw, that's brilliant! Glad to have made lots of people smile today! :)
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