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fields for sports. On June 27th the
Thomas Jefferson Pool and Bathhouse is opened in Harlem providing relief from hot summers for the people in the surrounding tenements. On July 2nd the Astoria Pool and Play Center opens in Queens,
positioned in front of the Triborough and Hellgate Bridges with views of the Manhattan skyline. It is big enough to accommodate 3,000 people and is lit by underwater floodlights in the evening. On
July 7th the Joseph H. Lyons Pool is opened on Staten Island to a crowd of 7,500 people. The Highbridge Pool and Bathhouse in Manhattan on July 14th, the Sunset Pool in Brooklyn on July 20th, the
Crotona Pool in the Bronx on July 24th, the McCarren Pool in Brooklyn on July 31st, the Betsy Head Pool in Brooklyn on August 7th, the Jackie Robinson Pool and Recreation Center on August 8th, the
Sol Goldman Pool in Brooklyn on August 17th.
Moses likes to swim. He swims whenever he gets the chance. He will swim morning, noon or night. He is formidable in the water.
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Walt’s dress shirt is hanging over the waistband of his trousers. Bucke’s own clothes are pressed and tidy. This is the difference between the two of them. It is
something Bucke cannot ignore. Bucke wants to look smart for Walt. Walt has not changed his clothes in several days.
Don’t you think we should send word ahead to the engineer? Bucke asks.
The figures in the car through which they are passing are relaxing before dinner, reading books, sitting quietly. There is a mother bouncing a baby on her knee.
Walt laughs. He is determined to see how everything works.
When they reach the engine carriage they see a man standing before the furnace. He is blackened with dirt but his eyes are bright.
Walt shakes him vigorously by the hand, dirtying his own hand.
How much will she take? Walt says.
Whatever we give her, she’ll use.
May I try?
Walt throws logs into the furnace. What fun he is having.
Look at me, Bucke!
Bucke is watching. Bucke sees everything very clearly. Time is moving too swiftly. Times are changing. Train travel is becoming popular. High towers are being built. People can
now climb to the top of a building and see the boundaries of a city. They can see where things begin and end. These boundaries don’t appear to concern Walt. Here he is playing with the engine
of a train as a child would. Walt is not the age he is physically. He doesn’t notice any contradiction in the world. Walt describes the city as if it was a natural place. To him, the city is
as natural as the woodland, as calming as the ocean. He describes Trinity Church and Castle Clinton as if they had grown right out of the earth. At other times, he says that the wonder of the whole
universe can be found in the form and structure of a single leaf.
Walt wants all the things he cannot have. He says that when he is in one environment he is sure to be longing for another. For the hustle of Fulton Street, he says, or his beloved Broadway when
he is looking at Camden’s streams and fields. The city holds treasure for Walt. But Bucke is an expert on the mind. This is where real treasure lies; it can be found in human consciousness.
By developing consciousness we can learn to see from above. Walt sees from above. Even when he is asleep and disconnected from his surroundings Walt sees everything, while Bucke can only see
boundaries and borders, lines preventing one thing from connecting with another.
Walt is writing a letter in the dining car. He is hunched over the paper, consumed by his writing. Bucke is working on his manuscript. It occurs to Bucke that he and Walt are
not sitting in the same place. They are both together on this train but they are separated – one is in his letters and poetry, the other in his biography.
Walt is writing to Peter Doyle. He is explaining that it would be far easier for Peter to visit him in Camden when he goes there later in the year rather than Walt travelling
to Washington. He is feeling very tired. He
Thomas Jefferson Pool and Bathhouse is opened in Harlem providing relief from hot summers for the people in the surrounding tenements. On July 2nd the Astoria Pool and Play Center opens in Queens,
positioned in front of the Triborough and Hellgate Bridges with views of the Manhattan skyline. It is big enough to accommodate 3,000 people and is lit by underwater floodlights in the evening. On
July 7th the Joseph H. Lyons Pool is opened on Staten Island to a crowd of 7,500 people. The Highbridge Pool and Bathhouse in Manhattan on July 14th, the Sunset Pool in Brooklyn on July 20th, the
Crotona Pool in the Bronx on July 24th, the McCarren Pool in Brooklyn on July 31st, the Betsy Head Pool in Brooklyn on August 7th, the Jackie Robinson Pool and Recreation Center on August 8th, the
Sol Goldman Pool in Brooklyn on August 17th.
Moses likes to swim. He swims whenever he gets the chance. He will swim morning, noon or night. He is formidable in the water.
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Walt’s dress shirt is hanging over the waistband of his trousers. Bucke’s own clothes are pressed and tidy. This is the difference between the two of them. It is
something Bucke cannot ignore. Bucke wants to look smart for Walt. Walt has not changed his clothes in several days.
Don’t you think we should send word ahead to the engineer? Bucke asks.
The figures in the car through which they are passing are relaxing before dinner, reading books, sitting quietly. There is a mother bouncing a baby on her knee.
Walt laughs. He is determined to see how everything works.
When they reach the engine carriage they see a man standing before the furnace. He is blackened with dirt but his eyes are bright.
Walt shakes him vigorously by the hand, dirtying his own hand.
How much will she take? Walt says.
Whatever we give her, she’ll use.
May I try?
Walt throws logs into the furnace. What fun he is having.
Look at me, Bucke!
Bucke is watching. Bucke sees everything very clearly. Time is moving too swiftly. Times are changing. Train travel is becoming popular. High towers are being built. People can
now climb to the top of a building and see the boundaries of a city. They can see where things begin and end. These boundaries don’t appear to concern Walt. Here he is playing with the engine
of a train as a child would. Walt is not the age he is physically. He doesn’t notice any contradiction in the world. Walt describes the city as if it was a natural place. To him, the city is
as natural as the woodland, as calming as the ocean. He describes Trinity Church and Castle Clinton as if they had grown right out of the earth. At other times, he says that the wonder of the whole
universe can be found in the form and structure of a single leaf.
Walt wants all the things he cannot have. He says that when he is in one environment he is sure to be longing for another. For the hustle of Fulton Street, he says, or his beloved Broadway when
he is looking at Camden’s streams and fields. The city holds treasure for Walt. But Bucke is an expert on the mind. This is where real treasure lies; it can be found in human consciousness.
By developing consciousness we can learn to see from above. Walt sees from above. Even when he is asleep and disconnected from his surroundings Walt sees everything, while Bucke can only see
boundaries and borders, lines preventing one thing from connecting with another.
Walt is writing a letter in the dining car. He is hunched over the paper, consumed by his writing. Bucke is working on his manuscript. It occurs to Bucke that he and Walt are
not sitting in the same place. They are both together on this train but they are separated – one is in his letters and poetry, the other in his biography.
Walt is writing to Peter Doyle. He is explaining that it would be far easier for Peter to visit him in Camden when he goes there later in the year rather than Walt travelling
to Washington. He is feeling very tired. He
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