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A Point of View: New Year Letter from New York

28/02/2020

New Year Letter from New York

BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, New Year Letter from New York

Adam Gopnik on the bitter-sweet joys of cycling round Central Park.

Adam Gopnik reflects on why going round in circles these days feels fortunate, rather than futile.

Adam Gopnik, cycling around Central Park in New York, explains why going round in circles suddenly  appears not futile, but fortunate.  

In the midst of the pandemic, Adam - like thousands of other New Yorkers - has taken to cycling round the park on a daily basis.

"The truth, revealed at the end of one more revolution is simple," he writes. "We feel lucky to be alive.  That may be the one truth we didn't know before, or didn't know enough."


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