After the Venice of Book of San Michelefollowing Cuba, the “promised land” of baroque bordellofollowing The Galway Ride, we find Thierry Clermont in his attire as a walker of the Western world surveying a Long Island grafted onto the Baltic, an extension of Manhattan and a piece of Europe that would have drifted offshore. No need to weave metaphors, just pick the names of Long Island Rail Road stations as they present themselves: Glen Head, Sea Cliff, Glen Cove, Bay Shore will fry your brains with salty crystals. And the metro names: Atlantic Avenue, Bergen Street, the lines of the Eastern Parkway… We go around the world crossing a few boroughs and ocean-washed counties.
