Meserole Av, Brooklyn-Pulaski Bridge - Queensboro Bridge -Central Park, NY (4 loops) and back

Trip dist. 34.76 mile
Trip time 2:15:59
Avg speed 15.34 mph
Max speed 29.18 m
Trip climb 1.544
Avg pulse 149
Max pulse 183
Temperature ~80F

Meserole Av, Brooklyn-Pulaski Bridge - Queensboro Bridge (finding my way) -Central Park, NY (3 loops) and back

Trip dist. 30.15 mile
Trip time 2:07:02
Avg speed 14.24 mph
Max speed 26.78 m
Trip climb 1.302
Avg pulse 146
Max pulse 183
Timer up 2:11:32
Temperature ~80F

Philip Roth, American Pastoral (1997) 423p.

Porgies everyday! Riptide III, City Island NY

Get hammered by that beat on the Lady Windridge.
Lady Windridge

Palisades Park,NJ - Riverside Drive,NY (40 miles)
Approx. 3 hours

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Knut Hamsun, Hunger (1890) 243p.

I read this book as a literary heritage leading via Strindberg’s Inferno and Alone, Andre Breton’s Nadja, to Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, placed in a context of thought of Nietzsche and Stirner’s The Ego and His Own, and this line of autobiographical fiction is the zenith of the 19th century’s romantic hero turned inward genius, which is one of my favorite genres. But Hunger certainly stands out for its early expression of this type. Where Miller rejects society, the antagonist of Hunger is rejected. The same type of character can be seen in Beckett’s First Love, but never as original and authentic as in Hamsun.

There’s a foreword of Paul Auster in the edition I read from 1970. Auster later wrote Brooklyn Follies in which the antagonist seeks an escape from the anxieties of bourgeois life, ending in Hotel X, but Auster’s escape is a false dreamy rejection of a middle class product to escape his own boredom, Hunger’s rejection is driven by bitterness and pride by experience, and the torture of an artist who is spit out by that middle class, that Auster returns to. There’s nothing soothing about Hunger, but instead is resigned to the artist’s last resort, one self, and the hunger to write.

Shea Stadium, Flushing Meadows - Corona Park, Queens