Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noon, Harold has worked his way to Sage's where he invests in two dwarfed loaves of French bread (one thin dime apiece). From Brattle Street he ventures to Radcliffe to watch workmen labor over Ada M. Comstock, and eats his loaves of bread. There is a near-by drinking fountain...
...Harold spends the afternoon thinking...
Supper consists of a couple of Joe 'n' Nemo's hamburgers at two for a quarter--plus a carton of coffee which serves as mouthwash and handwarmer. Through the window he watches Boylston Street humanity and the Western demise of the sun. Harold has been known to mumble a few words about the weather to either Mr. Nemo or the corner cop--but they are measured words...
...Harold has a can of beer and a package of gum remaining; or a one-way subway token to Scollay Square (he can come back tomorrow); or English muffins and a cup of tea. Or a package of cigarettes. But it is night, the time of neon and lengthy shadows, streetlamps, hushed voices, nervous laughter, and sex. Night is Harold's garment of life...
Night, the repository of eternal verities, that time when inspiration sits like a lump between your ears and genius is a genie from a Chianti bottle. Night for Harold is a series of brown-ringed coffee cups and so many cobble-stones; a collection of footsteps, frowns, and scraps of paper; a time when janitors and hotel clerks are reading sex novels...