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Show Rose (1/1?/83) page 20 Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R ~r. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R What did you think of the west? Loved it. Did you? Oh, when I went back after that summer, you know, with him in Capser, I knew I'd never spend ~Y years in the east. You didn't think it was wierd or strange, or miss the east, or •• I loved it ••• I just loved it. What do you love about it, Bernie? I could walk down a street and not worry about half the people knocking me off, I mean inadvertently. Now I don't mean pushing me just to be pushing me. But a New York street on the lower east side was really something. You were always go1ng sideways or this way and the noise, and the people, and you couldn't even see a hunk of sky: you had to go a park to see a piece of sky. There were just little patches through big buildings all around you, wel that's not true all over because on the lower east side the buildings were not really that big, but still it was so confined and everything. It was so confining, the streets were not free to drive in, they were not free to walk in, they were just not free, period, that's all. That expanse, that space, it probably reflect in my living here, Mary's always closing the curtains and I'm always opening them, you ~ow, I have such a tremendous appreciation for space. I'll sit here and look out the window and the who world is ~Y living room here, you see. So, you loved it, huh? Yeah. Anyway, I got down to Colorado and I guess at that father's •• well, I'm not being fair to him, either, but at least ••• |
