Anyway... godspeed, farewell, adios... I'll see you next time, when you come "to visit". (that will probably hit you hard).

Best of lucks in SF.

All the best.

(BTW, I think I saw you near Penn Station last weekend)

Wired-

Sorry I can't make it tonight.

To your readers: My new web site is a result of Anil's intervention, whether he knows it or not. Last year he posted a link to something in my sidebar of "found" words (on the old web site, World New York), commenting that it was the part of the site he liked best. I thought about it and realized I liked it best, too. My new job as a lexicographer made it an easy decision, so the sidebar became a web site full of such found words. Anil's judgment on small things is as pinpoint-accurate as it is on the large.

Anil, I'm sorry to read you're leaving New York. There's an interesting sense of omnipresence here in New York City that I've never quite felt anywhere else I've been--not in Paris, Stockholm, Bogotá, Caracas, Athens, anywhere. Even if one doesn't often do, see, or know all the good things, places, or people here in this chaos, it's encouraging to have them all in one place. It's the ever-dawn polar shadow people cast. They're around even when they're not around. You're one of those people who casts a welcome silhouette. Do come back often.

Cheers,

Grant

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