New York will bestow the gifts of loneliness and privacy on anyone who desires such queer prizes. It is this largeness that accounts for the【A21】______ within the city’s walls of a【A22】______ section of the population; for the residents of Manhattan are largely strangers who have pulled up【A23】______ somewhere and come to town, seeking【A24】______ or fulfillment or some greater or lesser grail. The capacity to make such【A25】______ gifts is a mysterious quality of New York. It can destroy an individual, or it can【A26】______ him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be【A27】______.

Although New York often imparts a feeling of great【A28】______ or【A29】______, it seldom seems dead or un-resourceful; and you always feel that either by shifting your【A30】______ ten blocks or by reducing your【A31】______ by five dollars you can experience 【A32】______. Many people who have no real 【A33】______ of spirit depend on the city’s【A34】______ variety and sources of excitement for spiritual 【A35】______ and【A36】______ of morale. In the country there are a few【A37】______ of sudden rejuvenation — a shift in weather, perhaps, or something arriving in the mail. But in New York the chances are endless. I think that although many persons are here from some 【A38】______ of spirit (which caused them to break away from their small town), some, too, are here from a 【A39】______ of spirit, who find in New York a【A40】______, or an easy substitution.