More Misc. On 'They' and on NY City..from REAL PEOPLE

[Mark Kohut]

The narrator-writer of Real People reads the new book by
a poet at the Colony [called Illyria]....

"And he does rather obviously believe in We and They (We who
have dropped out of the System. They, everyone else)" .....

pubbed 1969. 

A...and a prosaic riff on (part of ) The Recognitions' subjects and
themes. 

"It [New York City] is not another, larger, Illyria but the opposite. 
Ugly,tense. dangerous; full of rubbish and noise; of cultural middlemen
and hangers-on. I've never been to a New York party where the real 
artists weren't outnumbered by reviewers, editors, publishers, collectors,
dealers and agents. Plus, of course, everybody's wives and mistresses.
and all those unattached or semi-attached girls referred to by Kenneth's
friends as "chicks".