You exit the airport and call your friend, who suggests you meet her at the Rosenbach Museum and Library on Delancey Place. Just as you arrive, you see your friend crossing the street. The two of you make your way past tables set up on the closed-off street and take seats in front of a lectern positioned on a stoop. Sunlight filters through the sycamore trees. A local actor, in a colorful shawl, emerges from the doorway behind the lectern and proceeds to read, with humor and verve, Molly Bloom’s soliloquy from Joyce’s Ulysses.
Note: Such an arrival is only possible in Philadelphia on June 16.
