The Peelers: Spring

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Monday, March 12, 2007

Spring Fever

I have been out of sorts lately. Feeling tired, lethargic, almost sick but with nothing particularily wrong with me. Turns out I have some American disease called "Spring Fever" - apparently defined as a feeling of restlessness, excitement, or laziness brought on by the coming of spring.
It also has something to do with Jeter & A-Rod (that's what google says anyway..) - not sure if that's about the start of the baseball season or the sleep overs they have been having.

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back at me before they faded through a door into warm darkness. At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner—young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Monday, March 12, 2007

Spring Fever

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