Saturday commute cxlvii: Sense and recompense

There are all kinds of love

in the world, but never the

same love twice.

The building down the avenue

is a hotel, and used to keep

rooms at a discount for under-

graduates in those days. I saw

this remark from one such fel-

low, in a story entitled, The

Sensible Choice; and it seemed

to fit to perfection a time, so

many years later, when we were

still suspended in the fantasy

of seemingly advancing beauty.

Now we find, this was not so.

But what was true, was a pas-

sion for that aspiration, em-

bodied in the second edifice: 

the one exemplification of it,

rising over every imitation -

that love we would have once.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
1924

Ezra Stoller, photography
Waldorf-Astoria and the
  Seagram Building, 375
  Park Avenue, New York
1960