Mike Geary wrote
I’ve heard the parallel postulate’s no good on Henry Street, that from a certain sidewalk square the lines go out in all directions and yet stay parallel, stealing the dancers’ shadows from the polished boards upstairs. I walk down Cornelia Street, looking for Hassan’s Café Aladdin. ‘Where were you when he needed you?’ Not there, not there. I never am.
For some reason I suspect this is either from or an allusion to something from Joyce. Yes or no?
Nah. Strictly personal. Recollections of a 1967 visit to a friend in NY, who lived on Clinton Street. We went walking up into what I think is the West Village, looking for Hassan's, on Cornelia Street, where I'd had a great meal in 1960 or '61. Stopped and asked a guy on a ladder (transformed here into a street person) where Hassan had gone. His reply is quoted above. The dancers are in a picture I took through the door of a rehearsal room in the Henry Street Playhouse. The HSP might be on Grand Street—? Joycean only in that it's about a walk through town. Can't remember the date, but it was just after an APA meeting in Philadelphia, in December, not June 16.
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