meadows–not my favorite thing

Posted: April 14th, 2020 | Tags: | Comments Off on meadows–not my favorite thing
FRAN LEBOWITZ Illustration by Chloe Cushman. Courtesy of The New Yorker.
Illustration by Chloe Cushman. Courtesy of The New Yorker.

have had the blues but this interview with hero fran lebowitz cheered me up greatly:

How have you been spending your time in self-isolation?
It depends how much you count the time you spend sulking. Let me put it this way: when they compile a list of the heroes of this era, I will not be on it.

What does urban life mean without our ability to go to public spaces? Does it even feel like a city anymore to you?
No. After September 11th, I was on the street twenty-four hours a day, and I was riveted by the things I saw. I’m not talking about being down by the World Trade Center; all over town there was stuff you never would have imagined seeing. But now it’s just sad. On the one hand, you’re happy you don’t have a million people slamming into you while they’re looking at their phones. On the other hand, it’s like a meadow without the good features of a meadow. Meadows—not my favorite thing. There are no restaurants in a meadow. But there are flowers, there are trees. This is like a meadow with no trees.

I want to go back to Cuomo, because he’s getting such adulation for his role in this, and I’m curious if you think that it’s deserved.
He’s being compared to Trump, so naturally he looks like Abraham Lincoln. First of all, Trump is very lazy. I can tell you, the same way basketball players say “game recognizes game,” sloth recognizes sloth. This is a lazy guy. I actually know this. And Andrew Cuomo is an incredibly industrious person, and I do think he’s doing a good job. He’s doing a job, which Trump is not.

A NATIONAL TREASURE

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