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Your take on NYC in decline is well-noted. 

I had a similar conclusion when while sitting outside at a restaurant on LaGuardia Street, a car came down the street with someone inside firing a gun randomly at the sidewalk... or was it when I was coming out of Chow House on Bleecker, the street was crowded with homeless young men, and when I had a conversation with one near the entrance, I could see he in his eyes he was not where he wanted to be. 

But I have to say that I am disappointed you ignored my question and everything I had understood might be a mutual quest, and a dialogue about writing. You apparently care nothing about discussing Appel and seeing what we might discover about writing as we measure his successes and mistakes. 

I did address our exchange about what constitutes an essay and a short story. Apparently that is not worthy material for your comment, although it was an attempt to contextualize our past brief exchange of messages.

So your goal of a paragraph a day or whatever is laudatory, but if you are refusing a dialogue and taking into account all of the prose we are generating, then my advice to you is to start your own Blog and send me the link, and I'll try to visit once in a while.

Otherwise, let's end this conversation, because so far you have not related to one thing that I've written.