The Brooklyn Follies

"I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I traveled down there from Wetchester to scope out the terrain. I haven´t been back in fifty-six years, and I remembered nothing. My parents had moved out of the city when I was three, but I instinctively found myself returning to the neighborhood where we had lived, crawling home like some wounded dog to the place of my birth."