And as I told you, NYC is a small town.
Why do I find this hard to believe? Because there are only 8 million people there?
Each 'neighborhood,' or subculture, I guess you could call it, is its own small town. You know 'six degrees of separation'? Well, in NYC if everybody you know is, say, associated with the ballet, or with medical research, or show biz, or writing, that's your neighborhood, and the degrees of separation are nowhere near the six that are said to separate anyone on earth with everyone else. It would be unusual for me to go to a party and sit down next to someone who didn't know a number of people I know, because I'm at that particular party. Obviously, I could sit down in the bus or the theater or by accident show up at the wrong address and wrong party and find people to the right and left who know no one I know. Different neighborhoods, is all. |
