New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.

New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.
BILL GEIST

Cities Country Reading
Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: “Open Bar.”
BILL GEIST

Drawn Feelings Sweet Two
They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.
BILL GEIST

Fishing Lakes Sea
Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.
BILL GEIST

Class Country Dollars
Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.
BILL GEIST

Caviar Chilled Consistency Pressed
Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.
BILL GEIST

Fleeing Grown Men Reading
There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one’s head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire.
BILL GEIST

Feelings Fire Lovely

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