Djuna, Did You Used to Visit?
Djuna Barnes, born January 12, lived her final 42 years at 5 Patchin Place in New York City, across the street from E. E. Cummings.A novelist, poet, and playwright, Barnes became friends with Marianne Moore in the 1920s, when both were young and Moore worked at NYPL's Hudson Park Library. I can imagine Barnes visiting Moore in our children’s room.
Here she is, speaking about Greenwich Village. What she says is still true, almost 100 years later:
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
After all, it is not where one washes one’s neck that counts but where one moistens one’s throat.
"Greenwich Village as It Is," Pearson’s Magazine (October 1916).
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