Taste: lemon
Touch: the weight of one freshly published hardback book, and the smoothness of its cover
Smell:the factory across the way releases charbroiled smoke, I am a vegetarian, running
Sight: the man on Seneca reading William Gibson's Neuromancer, a fresh copy with a sky blue cover; the flamboyant pink, filled to the sugar crystal rim, martini sitting alone beside the blue chair on the brown stage
Sound:techno beats, the DJ at the entrance to the W Hotel
Extra: the sense of knowing when a book is done and any changes will "just make it different" not better, "timid joy"; the author on stage becomes a celebrity, speaks wittily, receives applause, but at the end is found behind a desk, seated pen in hand, writing, writing rapidly for the waiting masses
Touch: the weight of one freshly published hardback book, and the smoothness of its cover
Smell:the factory across the way releases charbroiled smoke, I am a vegetarian, running
Sight: the man on Seneca reading William Gibson's Neuromancer, a fresh copy with a sky blue cover; the flamboyant pink, filled to the sugar crystal rim, martini sitting alone beside the blue chair on the brown stage
Sound:techno beats, the DJ at the entrance to the W Hotel
Extra: the sense of knowing when a book is done and any changes will "just make it different" not better, "timid joy"; the author on stage becomes a celebrity, speaks wittily, receives applause, but at the end is found behind a desk, seated pen in hand, writing, writing rapidly for the waiting masses