I don't wanna grow up as well. There's this fanatic of Catcher in the Rye who went round New York documenting the places Holden went to. I found the website cos i wanted to find the path Holden took in Central Park which inspired him to ask this nitwit question "Where did the ducks go in winter?"
The book was written in 1950s so she actually ransacked history to find out the existing buildings in place of the old ones. A lot of ppl live in their youth because this is the only period of their life where they still dream. "The more you live, the less you feel"
New York is a pilgrimmage for me; a mecca for the literature that affected my growing phase. Now that my mind is kinda degenerating, I wish to visit mecca to find new life. Not to mention the breeding ground for Yo La Tengo's dreampop charm--Hoboken, NJ. Harlem would be to relive Jack Kerouac's hobo days, where bebop and jazz became the source of his stream-of-consciousness, crazed-out writing style. All I know about New York is from books. Nearly forgot this city's influence on Edward Hopper's haunting paintings of the lonely urbanscape in the 20s and 30s admist the depression and World Wars. Luckily the museums in Washington DC have a permanent collection of some of his paintings and they are free. The ones in NY holds those that I really wanna see, guess wat, it's USD12.
I live in my head, I am looking for things that no longer exists. Why the hell do i wanna go Ny for?
Nostalgia. for a place I've never been too.