I could see the future rushing up to meet me

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The only pictures I took in New York were at Flushing Meadows; I hadn't brought my camera, so I used derspatchel's phone. Here are a few.



This is not a picture I took at Flushing Meadows. This is a picture of me on the B&B Carousell at Coney Island. I'd asked Rob to take a picture of my horse, which he did next, but it turned out I didn't mind his first try.



The Unisphere. From here on all photographic faults are my own. I really like this one.



Rob's phone is not so great about its zoom function; it doesn't pixellate so much as it becomes sort of blocky and abstract. [edit: rinue explains why in comments.] I still like how the structure frames itself here.







Deleted, some sculpture that came out weirdly blued and a Mercury Atlas rocket at an unsuccessfully canted angle. I took a bunch of the Observation Towers which I think came out well, but I'm not sure they all came out so equally well that I should inflict them on LJ. But here, the sky in a webwork of guy wires. The last one is my favorite. It reminded me of the sun-petaled stage design Peter Shaffer describes in the script of The Royal Hunt of the Sun.

I am sorry there are not more pictures of us, wandering around the future of the past. I suppose we'll have to go back.

P.S. Some kind person has put up all eight and a half hours of the RSC's Nicholas Nickleby on YouTube, just as if I wanted to compare it with the published script. There goes my free time.

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You probably already knew this, but I recently found out that Flushing Meadows, prior to its transformation into a World's Fair site, was the Valley of Ashes. I wonder if they ever get any Gatsby tourists, or if there'll be an uptick following the movie?

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You probably already knew this, but I recently found out that Flushing Meadows, prior to its transformation into a World's Fair site, was the Valley of Ashes.

We were actually talking about Fitzgerald at one point as we wandered!

I wonder if they ever get any Gatsby tourists, or if there'll be an uptick following the movie?

. . . We didn't think of that.