that I should have rented a house
in one of the strangest communities
in North America.
It was on that slender
riotous
island
which extends itself
due east of New York —
and where there are, among other natural curiosities
, two unusual formations of land.
Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs,
identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay,
jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water
in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. They are not perfect ovals — like the egg in the Columbus story,
hey are both crushed flat at the contact end —
but their physical resemblance must be a
source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.
To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
(fitzgerald chapter 1 page 5).0
Sounds like a really nice place to live
ReplyDeletegood sounding poem but is that an actual picture of New York?
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