Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson

Aug 24 ’03

Dear Laura—

Are you really surrounded by water, as on that card? Gee, surrounded by water. Sort of like…hmmm….Manhattan island?

I take all sorts of advantage of it here, too. Back when my kids were about 5 and 7 (they’re now 38 and 40) I once took them for a ride on the Staten Island Ferry!

It truly does look spectacular. How’dja know?

Stay well, do well, both of you. (See the last two lines, Part III, “The Dry Salvages.”)⁹

All my very best again—

David

9 “Not fare well, / But fare forward, voyagers.” T.S. Eliot, “The Dry Salvages,” The Four Quartets.