Wild Heart : Natalie Clifford Barney And The Decadence of Literary Paris , Suzanne Rodriguez-Hunter

“That’s nice“, my readers sarcastically think. After all, I am an adult , possessing all of my intellectual faculties. Natalie Clifford Barney was one of the the bright lights in the constellation of 1920-30’s literary stars.

Strangely , I feel as if I have returned from a lost world. I did use my Kindle. There’s little difference between an e-book and a “real” book.

I had the television turned off during my reading session Now I have the set turned on, as I await a train , #98 The Silver Meteor, New York Bound. How quaint and strange is this tottering relic making its daily journey to Manhattan, an ever fading lost world. The culture no longer possesses a capital in physical space and time. New York could exist merely on a server, as does the e-book I just completed.

Better to not think about the cyber world too much. Let her fuel the fire of my imagination and then leave her to her repose. We now move from a shadowy digital world of images on computer screens to a fanciful universe in our brains. We move from one representation to another, believing them real.

Caution: Don’t think about these images too much.