The following is an excerpt from the novel My Path to Greatness:
Long before I came to any knowledge of Jane Thayer or fully embraced that I wasn’t among the brightest stars in the firmament and before my parents and two of my sisters made themselves invisible on the earth, there is my childhood room overlooking Broadway, along which the cars and trucks and buses of the city are given the right of way to race along, not as they please but within the guidelines of the traffic lights installed to impose a kind of order, a sorrow suffusing me that the trolleys cannot be there too in the time that I have come into but had to be retired in the relentless current of change the world has not found a way to resist.
Before the bad people came we lived in a palace bigger than any ocean, with rooms that sparkled. Jewels hung from our necks and gold lace shone in our hair and the radiance of springtime was always in our lives and frankincense and myrrh were at our disposal. In chariots we rode and slept in bowers of bliss and drank the milk and honey of the land.
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