Comments on: A Thing About Brooklyn http://dervala.net/2003/11/18/a-thing-about-brooklyn/ A love letter Mon, 21 May 2012 16:34:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: r0b0t http://dervala.net/2003/11/18/a-thing-about-brooklyn/comment-page-1/#comment-246 r0b0t Sun, 23 Nov 2003 04:41:40 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=489#comment-246 It's times like tonight that I considering telling people that "I have a thing about Brooklyn". At three in the morning, an hour and half door-to-door from Park Slope to Union Square on an "express" train full of vagrants is really unpleasant. It’s times like tonight that I considering telling people that “I have a thing about Brooklyn”. At three in the morning, an hour and half door-to-door from Park Slope to Union Square on an “express” train full of vagrants is really unpleasant.

]]> By: Dervala http://dervala.net/2003/11/18/a-thing-about-brooklyn/comment-page-1/#comment-245 Dervala Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:37:32 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=489#comment-245 Normally I'd scoff with the zeal of a convert, but for a man who can manage Tibet and Ladakh, I'm glad to go to Chelsea. I was surprised he even asked, as it happens. Never occurs to me to ask Manhattan friends to come out here. There's a warp in the universe that I used to experience when I lived in midtown: distances from Manhattan to Brooklyn are an order of magnitude larger than the reverse. And while you can't get lost on the little island, you can flounder here in the badlands for hours. I've done it. Normally I’d scoff with the zeal of a convert, but for a man who can manage Tibet and Ladakh, I’m glad to go to Chelsea.

I was surprised he even asked, as it happens. Never occurs to me to ask Manhattan friends to come out here. There’s a warp in the universe that I used to experience when I lived in midtown: distances from Manhattan to Brooklyn are an order of magnitude larger than the reverse. And while you can’t get lost on the little island, you can flounder here in the badlands for hours. I’ve done it.

]]> By: Mr. Fresh http://dervala.net/2003/11/18/a-thing-about-brooklyn/comment-page-1/#comment-244 Mr. Fresh Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:21:29 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=489#comment-244 Mee thinks this man may well be charming but perhaps a wet noodle? Mee thinks this man may well be charming but perhaps a wet noodle?

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