Show fri friendship leril ship marred by distance in new york la in new york city it ts Is possible to know an infinite variety of good citizens you may scrape up an ac with showgirls show girls professors of applied therapeutics novelists pugilists hindu tabloid reporters toe dancers and captains of south american banana boats you may even become warm friends of a or a hoboken bartender but ut what good will they do you 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 eee always reside in jamaica or jersey city so that it you are projecting an hours friendly call you have to travel on the subways two hours you are mauled hauled by the theater crowd find and manhandled man handled by the downtown warehouse ware honse boase watchmen going uptown to sleep and the uptown swells going downtown to play and when you arrive at your friends house at 1000 p in limp and shopworn you find of course that lie 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 far easier to be content with the casual folk you rub against where your business or your thirst takes you As aa 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 tole tolerable fable conly aly because they can speak your jargon of art or business and do not attempt to assault you with beer mugs ernest L meyer in the forum and century |