4428. During the month before Coromo intended to go to New
York City he spent a lot of time trying to imagine what it would be like. In
the small library in the resort there was a book about the city full of
historic pictures of streets and architecture and he took the book home and
studied all the pictures very carefully.
4429. He tried to imagine himself in the pictures and
walking down the streets. The pictures were all black and white and from a
different era, but the idea of being in such a strange place was so foreign to
him that the anachronistic nature of his daydreaming did not dawn on him.
4430. He pictured to himself walking past many a building
that no longer existed, buying train or subway tickets in huge terminal
buildings long ago torn down.
4431. He was like a person standing at the entrance of the
subway with one of those old brass subway tokens as small as a dime, and
wondering how to proceed.
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