Did a similar SWAG with the theatre. It seemed everyone in NYC could attend a performance on Broadway, but only one every two years. If there weren’t any tour

Did a similar SWAG with the theatre. It seemed everyone in NYC could attend a performance on Broadway, but only one every two years. If there weren’t any tourists to compete with. Lots of people, not a lot of seats. I stand to be corrected on that number if anyone has a better analysis. An upstate professor I knew 20 years ago called it the New York City hype machine. “Love poems” is a great way of characterizing them. And love poems to a place have a great value…they create a sort of emotional architecture that operates at a different, but no less real, level than the physical and improves the emotional life for those thriving/living/stuck in those places. You don’t want to be “that guy” making the slog worse for those living there by denting their ideal that already has obvious condition issues. The problem is the “Jerusalem syndrome” that arises when newcomers, newcomers on which NYC depends like vampires depend on blood, compare their reality to the poems. Sadly, although we dream in poetry, we live in prose.