The Girl from Human Street by Roger Cohen

Author:Roger Cohen [Cohen, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-385-35313-7
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-01-13T05:00:00+00:00

I was born in 1955, midway between the atomic bomb and the release of the Beatles’ Rubber Soul, at the start of a postwar boom that would endure decades, on the free side of the iron curtain, in a Europe embarking on the “ever closer union” that stopped the self-destruction of the first half of the twentieth century, safe from the Nazi death factories, too late for the trenches, not too late for flower power, in time for the hippie trail to the subcontinent, and in line for the sexual sweet spot between the arrival of the Pill and the onset of AIDS. This was a good time to be born. One grew up without device distraction and got into the habit of reading. As Philip Larkin noted, “Sexual intercourse began \ In nineteen sixty-three.” For me it began five years later in a Chelsea town house, a couple of hours after watching the Pink Floyd free concert in Hyde Park and feeling, to my surprise, Sarah’s toes touch mine in the grass. I can never listen to “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” without recalling the moment I realized her toes were not mingling with mine by mistake. She knew a lot more than I did.

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