[Leica] OT: Mountain-Climbing and Ansel Adams and Mark Rabiner

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

"Time and Again" is by far the best time-travel novel ever written.

Adam

On 3/8/07, Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net> wrote:
> At 09:17 PM 3/8/2007, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>  >
>  >Almost every day I climb from where I am now at the top left corner 
> point of
>  >Central Park - Frederick Douglass Circle which is known as MANHATTAN 
> VALLEY
>  >up Cathedral Parkway which is 110th 1500 ft to Broadway which is known as
>  >MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS. Or "THE HEIGHTS" if you are a Beat Poet. I don't 
> huff
>  >and puff too much but its the way down that kills me. I had my knee done 
> a
>  >year and a half ago and I think it needed to be done more.
>  >The Doc said I can climb hills I'm just not allowed to go down them.
>  >This makes for some some occasional logistical problems.
>
> For a bit of history of your adopted city, Mark,
> I can most highly recommend the writings of that
> denizen of the City (San Francisco), Jack Finney,
> in his TIME AND AGAIN and FROM TIME TO
> TIME.  Finney was hung up on having his character
> meet a fellow in 1882 who had been alive when
> George Washington was alive;  in 1958, I knew a
> fellow who lived next to me who had seen the
> Yankee troops marching home in 1865.  We are all
> part of history.  And the Dakota, the building
> where John Lennon was made a permanent part of
> history, plays a major part as well in the first book.
>
> Finney's epic tale of Marin County and screwing
> the cops on the Golden Gate Bridge from the
> 1970's is also worth a read, especially if you've
> lived there, as I have.  What a hoot!
>
> Marc
>
>
>
> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>
>
>
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