For Virginia Woolf, creative freedom arrived when her aunt, out for some fresh air in Bombay, fell off a horse and left her niece an annual income “forever,” as Woolf writes with gratitude in “A Room of One’s Own.” For Matthew Thomas, that precious freedom arrived when the faceless bureaucracy of New York’s Mitchell-Lama Housing Program churned out his name, guaranteeing him not just any room of his own, but a miraculously inexpensive room he could have, if he liked, forever.
An Upper East Side Co-op for a Pittance – New York Times
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For Virginia Woolf, creative freedom arrived when her aunt, out for some fresh air in Bombay, fell off a horse and left her niece an annual income “forever,” as Woolf writes with gratitude in “A Room of One’s Own.” For Matthew Thomas, that precious freedom arrived when the faceless bureaucracy of New York’s Mitchell-Lama Housing Program churned out his name, guaranteeing him not just any room of his own, but a miraculously inexpensive room he could have, if he liked, forever.
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