tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32999748.post3565323850722173850..comments2024-03-04T01:47:18.750-05:00Comments on Lemurian Congress: Hot!Adam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05634565262440008573noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32999748.post-39587448325146571082011-07-08T10:17:20.186-04:002011-07-08T10:17:20.186-04:00Find it here as a PDF:
http://academic.brooklyn.c...Find it here as a PDF:<br /><br />http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/burrows/Hist_66/White.pdf<br /><br />Let me know if you can't see the whole URL (it didn't appear correctly in the preview).Garynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32999748.post-58535731892506325502011-07-07T16:15:12.962-04:002011-07-07T16:15:12.962-04:00I will! And funny, over lunch I was talking to a f...I will! And funny, over lunch I was talking to a friend who'd just returned from a New York visit, and she said the heat was unbelievable. And that's saying something from somebody who grew up in this muggy sweatbox.<br /><br />Now to find "Here Is New York..."Adam Thorntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634565262440008573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32999748.post-20686511078100237412011-07-07T13:14:56.004-04:002011-07-07T13:14:56.004-04:00Like E. B. White's “Here Is New York,” I would...Like E. B. White's “Here Is New York,” I would hope there's something to love about your city despite the heat (White wrote his classic during an intense heat wave in NYC).<br /><br />I mention this because your word choices, cadence and style remind me of White's prose (not to mention the urban issues).<br /><br />As he put it, “I am sitting at the moment in a stifling hotel room in 90-degree heat, halfway down an air shaft, in midtown. No air moves in or out of the room, yet I am curiously affected by emanations from the immediate surroundings.”<br /><br />Later: “In summer the city contains (except for tourists) only die-hards and authentic characters. No casual, spotty dwellers are around, only the real article. And the town has a somewhat relaxed air, and one can tie in a loincloth, gasping and remembering things.”<br /><br />Sound familiar? Why not grab a copy of “Here Is New York” and sweat along with E.B.? It’s a great, quick summer read!Garynoreply@blogger.com