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title: 'On Fleeing Times Square'
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date: '2002-12-30T12:04:16-05:00'
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permalink: /on-fleeing-times-square/
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tags:
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- conferences
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- travel
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A brief return to the blogsphere, with the promise of more shortly.
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Have spent the last four days in the town part of me still considers [home](http://www.nyc.gov "The town so nice, you need a minimum six figures a year to live there."). The cab ride from the airport, in fact, had all the emotional groundtone of the return after long tiresome journey, with heightened urgency due to the five-year duration of said journey. This sense of homecoming was rendered surreal, however, by the fact that the cab took me to an enormous hotel smack in the middle of Times Square.
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I’m now really on the way home, post-holidays, post-[Anxiety Fest](http://www.mla.org "the MLA, that is"), and am happily anticipating [blue skies and 70 degrees](http://www.weather.com/weather/local/91711?lswe=91711&lwsa=WeatherLocalUndeclared "Just you don't think I'm making it up."). The [Entertainment Capital of the World](http://www.timessquare.com "Times Square, of course") left me a bit exhausted. The Christmas carols blaring from giant speakers mounted on every corner were only the most literal manifestation of the place’s too-muchness, its utter disconnect from the city I still love, but they nonetheless bade me a fond farewell, wishing for [frozen precipitation](http://guitar.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.geocities.com/etheltheaardvark/letitsnowchords.txt "Let It Snow") as my cab inched away.
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