Yet I found everything irresistible, the city’s rhythms and colors, its contrasts and surprises. That Walt Whitman and Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Henry James, and John Dos Passos had lived here, that Enescu, Brancusi, or Eugen Ionesco had been successful here in no way raised my hopes.
Že zde bydleli Walt Whitman a Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Henry James a John Dos Passos, že se zde setkali s úspěchem Enescu, Brancusi nebo Eugen Ionesco, to mé naděje v žádném případě nezvyšovalo.