This blog's purpose is to promote the novel, The Long Habit of Living, by Mark Zipoli. Posts have excerpts from the book and related visuals to give the reader a heightened literary experience. Oftentimes posts may refer to my championing the works of John Cowper Powys, Orhan Pamuk, Doris Lessing, Anita Brookner, and other heroes.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Page 49 "the opposite direction brought one to Trinity Church"
From page 49 of the book: "...Later that afternoon, I made my way toward Union Square Station to take a downtown train to Owen's office in the financial district. Owen's building stood at the corner of Broadway and Wall Street. Within a short walking distance lay Battery Park and New York's harbor, and the view to the Statue of Liberty. A couple blocks in the opposite direction brought one to Trinity Church, its historic graveyard taking up the corner lot of that block. I had often finished lunch with Owen and walked through it, marvelling at the above-ground tombs of Robert Fulton and Alexander Hamilton, the tilted, chipped gravestones of past New York governors, church ministers, children, sea captains, and Civil War soldiers."
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