Broadway: think how symbolic the name is. Broad is the way
that leadeth to destruction! But in Brooklyn the ways are
narrow, and they lead to the Heavenly City of content.
Central Park: there you are--the centre of things, hemmed in
by walls of pride. Now how much better is Prospect Park,
giving a fair view over the hills of humility! There is no
hope for New Yorkers, for they glory in their skyscraping
sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly."
"So you think that if I had been a governess in Brooklyn I
should have been so contented that I would never have come
with Andrew and compiled my anthology of 6,000 loaves of bread
and the lesser lyrics?"
But the volatile Professor had already soared to other points
of view, and was not to be thwarted by argument.
"Of course Brooklyn is a dingy place, really," he admitted.
"But to me it symbolizes a state of mind, whereas New York is
only a state of pocket. You see I was a boy in Brooklyn: it
still trails clouds of glory for me. When I get back there
and start work on my book I shall be as happy as
Nebuchadnezzar when he left off grass and returned to tea and
crumpets. `Literature Among the Farmers' I'm going to call
it, but that's a poor title.
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