LOVE THAT E-METER MERIT BADGE

And the enema book was actually discovered, I recall, on one of those gomi-spread sidewalk blankets that were such a common feature of the pre-Regooded city. The sort of find that makes all things seem possible, at least to the stroll-by bibliophile. And many, certainly, were, New York having been in those days seemingly not a part of the United States but something simultaneously autonomous and interstitially abandoned.

When I first visited New York as an adult (so to speak) at the start of my