Immanentising the eschaton

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born there, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size, its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter--the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these trembling cities the greatest is the last--the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh yes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.

Historical RPF is valid. My wife and I have had some of the best sex of our marriage as Will Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe

Unlike many of the men in the Kennedy administration and family, including the president, McNamara radiated respect for women and an interest in their lives and intellectual pursuits. He could be a sensitive companion with them, a sympathetic listener. Over time, these qualities, and apparently the sex appeal that Jackie [Kennedy] noted, drew a number of women to him.

Passed the White Pharaoh on the freeway