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norefo4416
20.07.2019 • 
English

In "goodbye to all that," joan didion writes that the days before she "knew the names of all the bridges were happier than the ones that came later." which evidence from the text best supports the idea that her first years in new york were better than her last years in the city? "everything that was said to me i seemed to have heard before, and i could no longer listen. i could no longer sit in little bars near grand central and listen to someone complaining of his wife’s inability to cope with the while he missed another train to connecticut." " we walked to a spanish restaurant and drank bloody marys and gazpacho until we felt better. i was not then guilt-ridden about spending afternoons that way, because i still had all the afternoons in the world." "now when new york comes back to me it comes in hallucinatory flashes, so clinically detailed that i sometimes wish that memory would effect the distortion with which it is commonly credited." "and even that late in the game i still liked going to parties, all parties, bad parties, saturday-afternoon parties given by recently married couples who lived in stuyvesant town, west side parties given by unpublished or failed writers who served cheap red wine and talked about going to "

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