story: Babylon Revisited
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
year: 1931
where: train, Silla to Bologna
note: traveling, delayed post
a line: “It was not an American bar any more–he felt polite in it, and not as if he owned it.”
story: The Cracked Looking-Glass
author: Katherine Anne Porter
year: 1933
where: Roma Termini
note: is this a novella?
a line: “A man owes something to himself.”
story: The Gay Old Dog
author: Edna Ferber
year: 1917
where: Roma Hotel, bedroom from a plush Versailles dream
note: thinking about how much I liked the Chicago Loop
a line: “If you had told them he was a dreamer of dreams, for example, they would have been amused.”
samantha Neugebauer 