Comments on: nyc http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/2006/06/01/nyc/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:23:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: beefeater http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/2006/06/01/nyc/#comment-43038 beefeater Fri, 02 Jun 2006 05:51:21 +0000 http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/?p=151#comment-43038 <i>"They walked Pearl Street, taking in the maze of new wooden buildings that seemed to have sprung up on every available patch of land. Lorenzo commented on that particularly New York street mix of men with nothing to do and men in a devil of a hurry. Mason admitted the place was huge and filthy. They both thought the natives either looked too closely or paid you no attention. Lorenzo, gun under his long coat, wondered how so many people could live so close together without killing each other. He was told they frequently did."</i> (The story's action takes place in 1835, but it was written in modern times.) “They walked Pearl Street, taking in the maze of new wooden buildings that seemed to have sprung up on every available patch of land. Lorenzo commented on that particularly New York street mix of men with nothing to do and men in a devil of a hurry. Mason admitted the place was huge and filthy. They both thought the natives either looked too closely or paid you no attention. Lorenzo, gun under his long coat, wondered how so many people could live so close together without killing each other. He was told they frequently did.”

(The story’s action takes place in 1835, but it was written in modern times.)

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