NOTE-TAKING IN NEW Y0RK: A SEMI-FICTIONAL REPORT ON WHAT THEY MIGHT HAVE SAID, HAD I BEEN THERE AT THE TIME TO EAVESROP ON THEM

 ---"I just had a great idea for a best-seller. What about a new non-fiction book that's entitled 'Profiles in Treason'? Each chapter would provide a factual account about each American citizen who was accused and convicted of treason against the United States, and the book would be photo-illustrated to show each of the court-ordered electrocution scenes. The final words of each of the persons convicted of treason would also be included in a caption under the electrocution scene photos. I feel very sure my new book project will get lots of media publicity and everyone will want to buy that book to place it right next to their copy of 'Profiles in Courage', written by John F. Kennedy before he got elected President."

---"To me, a book with a title such as 'a photo-illustrated 'Devil Worshippers of Today' would sell more copies and would stay on the Best Seller List for more total weeks. I have been looking for a book like that for months, but never seem to find one that grabs my attention. With all the Devil Worshippers I meet when I'm waiting for a subway car, and they openly admit they are Devil Worshippers, I need to study this book very closely. I will need all the guidance I can get on how to avoid provoking a Demonic Cult member in our city."

---"Here in New York, I'm very surprised I have not seen a Devil Worshipper of the Week feature profile in any tabloid. The tabloids love to shock you, and a Devil Worshipper profile series would be guaranteed of getting a horrified reaction from readers. Each feature would describe in detail the life of a local resident  who openly admits to being Satanic."

---"That type of story would sell even better if a government official here in New York could be exposed as being a Satanist who's confessed that to his clergyman."

---"When I read online that President Biden has complained that he and First Lady Jill Biden get zero privacy in the White House, that really hit home for me. I still have not identified any type of privacy right that I DO have. I thought I would send a public-information request to the City Government of New York, to ask if they can provide me with a copy of a legal document that cites an example of ANY type of privacy right that I currently have. I am single and live alone and am low-income, and I do not have a criminal-conviction record. I would normally expect to have a lot more privacy rights in my own very low-key life than the Bidens get. But it's just the opposite, since I get zero privacy throughout any and all of my nocturnal dreams and I am being subjected to a thought-control project against my wishes on a 24-hour-a-day basis. An attorney in Boston was the one who identified the thought-control project legal issue for me, and unfortunately he passed away after I discussed that with him on the telephone."

---"I'm very different from the persons stalking me here in New York. If someone rejects me, I take very diligent factual notes about it to make sure I don't contact them again. I've even got an alphabetically organized list I am trying to keep fully up-to-date that I can consult on a year-round basis to avoid ever sending an e-mail to someone who had already rejected me. And if I ever learn that the person who rejected me is being subjected to anonymous communications about me, I am very willing to pay an attorney to help me put an end to those anonymous communications that refer to me. I don't want to raise anyone's blood pressure by subjecting them to unwanted anonymous communications about me."

--"I blame Hollywood movies for the stalkers here who refuse to let anyone reject them without that person being harassed for it. Hollywood directors are hellbent on putting as much conflict as they possibly can into every movie they do. So innocent victims of stalking like me end up being subjected to S&M and death threats for months and months after we reject anyone. Some ultra-sadistic Hollywood director thinks it would be a lot of fun to see how much malice they can trigger in me from repeatedly hurling insults at me."

--"Every day in New York, I am trying to decide whether to focus on specific philanthropy causes I'm keen on or whether to focus on how to oppose misanthropy, which can be a very stressful and often grim experience. If you had the option of associating with angels when the alternative would be dueling with devils, what would you choose?"

---"So when you think of Platonic Love here in New York, who is the leader of that cause? This is the type of subject that I would like to see my church group address on Sundays, but no one is interested in platonic love these days. It's got to be something involving an orgasm or the subject bores them."

---"Philadelphia doesn't claim to be the City of Brotherly Love anymore. If you visit there, no one will ever talk about brotherly love unless you seek out a tourist guide and pay them to talk about that subject with you."

---"With all the anorexic fashion models we have here in New York, I wish some billionaire would donate money to establish a Treatment Center for Anorexic Fashion Models. It could truly be a life-saver. I was reminded of this when I thought about Twiggy from England the other day and I couldn't remember any recent story about her. The anorexic fashion models don't get the full longevity they deserve. Anorexia is synonomous with dying young, as Karen Carpenter's surviving relatives will definitely tell you."

---"I wish we had some counterpart to the Hyde Park outdoor speaker tradition of London. I love the idea of attending a weekly impromptu speaking event here in New York where civic-minded residents get up and talk about platonic passions of theirs. One of mine is recycling washing machines and dryers. I think we should recycle all the parts of washing machines and dryers when they fall apart and don't work anymore."

---"I call it linguistic tolerance. There is no accent I encounter here that I can't endure for at least 15 minutes before my facial expression turns very sour and I want to puke. Maybe I should found a non-profit group that praises and promotes the Linguistic Tolerance of New Yorkers."

---"That should not include the F-word, however, and I will be elated if I never again hear the 'n' word, either. But it would be impossible here to go through a 24-hour period without ever once hearing people talking dirty or nasty and profane around me."

---"I'm still new to New York. If you ask me to tell you what Oysters Rockefeller consist of, I will have to tell you that it's one of the topics I plan to research in order to pass for a New Yorker."

--"Living without privacy here is an invitation to write science fiction about a world in which everyone's thoughts are being monitored by a totalitarian government and any thought you have that that totalitarian government dislikes can put you a hard-labor camp for 10 years."

---"Is it possible that American society is turning totalitarian and privacy is being declared as gone forever. So how is that different from the totalitarianism of communist China?"

---"I don't want to get a bad reputation for being rough on the cigarette-industry states. So I plan to hire an economic diversification consultant and ask him or her to please meet with state and local governments in Virginia and North Carolina and see whether tobacco production can be reduced in a gradual manner that is non-traumatic for the people of Virginia and North Carolina."

---"I do agree with you that from the standpoint of enslaving people from getting them addicted to tobacco products, Virginia and North Carolina are sponsors of 21st Century slavery of that type."