I anthropomorphize everything, and nothing so much as New York City.
I knew when I came to NYT that day in December 1984 that I was right to think of the good bits of it as Manchester, because that's exactly how I feel about Manchester (England, England).
I've never been back, which is a pity. I should have been back - I was offered six months by my firm in 1987 - but turned them down because of that disastrous day, which could have been so much less disastrous if I hadn't been with an idiot, if I'd been able to refuse defer to the man, the person with the American family (we were staying with his WASP step-grandparents in a retirement village near Trenton, N.J and for them N.Y.C. was Teh Evol and Not What It Had Been, if I'd trusted my own spidey senses.
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Date: 2010-10-22 08:15 pm (UTC)I knew when I came to NYT that day in December 1984 that I was right to think of the good bits of it as Manchester, because that's exactly how I feel about Manchester (England, England).
I've never been back, which is a pity. I should have been back - I was offered six months by my firm in 1987 - but turned them down because of that disastrous day, which could have been so much less disastrous if I hadn't been with an idiot, if I'd been able to refuse defer to the man, the person with the American family (we were staying with his WASP step-grandparents in a retirement village near Trenton, N.J and for them N.Y.C. was Teh Evol and Not What It Had Been, if I'd trusted my own spidey senses.