Smith sits around and drinks coffee and prays and lights candles and cares for her cats, like other old ladies (like me), but flies around the world to speaking engagements when it suits her. Her beloved city, New York, moneyed Manhattan, the West Village, is so changed from her youth, there seems little for her there except what she calls her room and her table at her café. Her parents and brother and friend Burroughs are dead. The Widow Smith obviously loved and misses her husband. Solitary Smith seems lonely, and she probably is. When I read a personal memoir, I read it not as something by or about a celebrity–celebrity is mostly manufactured and annoying–but I read a book written by a human person, one person to another. The next day I picked up Patti Smith’s book M Train. (“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” ) By the way, Burroughs never said he was a non-believer.
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