Manhattan is just like in the movies and novels: familiar and at the same time different in houses, genders, roles... You have the feeling that here something can happen with your case too. You learn to speak directly, without the lengthy introductions and apologetic sanctifications of Europe. You can be childish, ridiculous, serious, and very smart. Here everything seems to be allowed except for stupidity, lack of style, or doing something half-heartedly, as I read somewhere... Here you survive without making it an issue. Your peculiarities are not much different from those of others. Of the thousands of others. You finally gain the right to indifference. And this anonymity, so erotic, to play any role you desire, like in the transformations of Greek mythology... What a gift! To be completely unknown. Or, to make myself understood, a complete unknown...