Brooklyn, NY . . .
“I’ve been reading a lot while in bed . . . Now I have begun, at last, War and Peace and am finished with 825 pages of it. I do not think that I like Tolstoi as much as Dostoevsky, but I’m enjoying myself with W&P more than any other novel I’ve read since The Idiot.” - Allen {Sheepshead Bay, New York} Jack Kerouac ^ Allen Ginsberg ^ The Letters
I love Brooklyn & its diversity. I love its imperfections. I love the fact that someone like Allen Ginsberg at some point in time could teach at Brooklyn College. I love the fact that one can be weird and yet be normal. I love the fact that it makes you think how to survive how to improve. I love the fact that growing up here gives you more knowledge & ability to think & resonate than any book. And every day passing through the streets one gets 1000 disconnected ideas that stick & stay in one’s head like a puzzle forming one big unique new picture.
I love the fact that it feels so unromantic and yet when you leave what you feel its “dump” you feel as if you lost the most romantic place on earth.
P.S. I probably agree on W&P somewhat . . . In my case it would be Anna Karenina ... With all my love for Tolstoi the story goes close enough to Leonardo DiCaprio’s Titanic (my favorite part of the film is the ship under the ocean ♀️). Yes, I definitely prefer Dostoyevsky to a poor woman throwing herself under the train because of the man.
Brooklyn, NY . . .
“I’ve been reading a lot while in bed . . . Now I have begun, at last, War and Peace and am finished with 825 pages of it. I do not think that I like Tolstoi as much as Dostoevsky, but I’m enjoying myself with W&P more than any other novel I’ve read since The Idiot.” - Allen {Sheepshead Bay, New York} Jack Kerouac ^ Allen Ginsberg ^ The Letters
I love Brooklyn & its diversity. I love its imperfections. I love the fact that someone like Allen Ginsberg at some point in time could teach at Brooklyn College. I love the fact that one can be weird and yet be normal. I love the fact that it makes you think how to survive how to improve. I love the fact that growing up here gives you more knowledge & ability to think & resonate than any book. And every day passing through the streets one gets 1000 disconnected ideas that stick & stay in one’s head like a puzzle forming one big unique new picture.
I love the fact that it feels so unromantic and yet when you leave what you feel its “dump” you feel as if you lost the most romantic place on earth.
P.S. I probably agree on W&P somewhat . . . In my case it would be Anna Karenina ... With all my love for Tolstoi the story goes close enough to Leonardo DiCaprio’s Titanic (my favorite part of the film is the ship under the ocean ♀️). Yes, I definitely prefer Dostoyevsky to a poor woman throwing herself under the train because of the man.