Show briend friendship ship marred by distance in new york in new york city it Is possible to know an infinite variety of 0 good citizens you may scrape up an acquaintance with showgirls show girls prefer sors bora of applied therapeutics novelists pugilists hindu tabloid reporters toe dancers and captains of 0 south american banana boats you may even become wham friends of a or a hoboken IIo boken bartender but what nhat good will they do you it if you live in the bronx your best friends invariably live in flatbush and if you live on city island the boon companions you are just dying to see always reside in jamaica or jersey city S so 0 that if you are pr projecting ejecting an holl hours rs friendly call you have to tr travel vel on the subways two hours you are mauled hauled by the theater crowd and manhandled man handled by the downtown warehouse watchmen going uptown to sleep and the uptown swells going downtown to play and when you arrive arrhe at your friends house at 1000 p in limp and shopworn you find of course course that he has quit waiting for you and has gone to a rumanian fish house three blocks from your home which you left two hours ago friendship in new york becomes too often a terrific chore it Is tar far easier to be content with the casual folk you rub against where your business or your thirst takes you ou As a rule therefore the people to your taste are not to your taste in any deeper spiritual sense but they simply frequent the same resort or restaurant you do and are tolerable only because they can speak your jargon of art or business and do not attempt to assault you with beer mugs ernert L meyer meer in the forum and century |