Like yesterday on the train. I saw a guy reading a Berthold Brecht play. I shimmied up slowly until I was practically on top of him and reading the book over his shoulders. "You like Brecht? Me too. He won a Nobel Prize three or four years ago," I told him, mistaking the author for Gunter Grass. "He's been on my reading list since I heard him on a radio interview a little while ago," I said batting my eyelashes. Brecht has been dead a long time. "What are you reading it for?" I asked. "Class," he replied, really getting into the little thing we had going. "Where do you go?" I asked. "Stuyvesant," he swaggered.
Stuyvesant College? University of Stuyvesant? I had never heard of Stuyvesant. "It's a high school," he explained.
Oh...nooo.
ReplyDeleteAlso Stuyvesant Town in Chelsea. My former roommate moved there. Apparently impossible to live in unless you want to be on the waiting list for 10 years.