For example, a shooting had occurred and E.B White had chosen not to participate. Out of all the different events that occur every second in New York, you have the choice of privacy or participation. (White 41) New York can be hit with a “twenty- thousand- man convention out of the west” yet the citizens won’t be effected.
White had been in his New York hotel room in Manhattan “curiously affected by the emanations from the immediate surroundings, “because of the many historical moments that have occurred around his hotel room from years, decades even centuries prior.
White takes us on a journey through the city that is the “concentrate of art and commerce and sport and religion and entertainment and finance,” New York.
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