![]() Even so, my spirits heightened whenever I felt in my pocket the key to this apartment with all its gloom, it still was a place of my own, the first, and my books were there, and jars of pencils to sharpen, everything I needed, so I felt, to become the writer I wanted to be. The single window looked out on a fire escape. Everywhere, in the bathroom too, there were prints of Roman ruins freckled brown with age. The walls were stucco, and a color rather like tobacco-spit. It was one room crowded with attic furniture, a sofa and fat chairs upholstered in that itchy, particular red velvet that one associates with hot days on a tram. For instance, there is a brownstone in the East Seventies where, during the early years of the war, I had my first New York apartment. ![]() ![]() I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods. ![]()
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