Todd Schafer’s Reviews > Taming a Sea-Horse > Status Update

Okay. The name is E.B. White. In a 1949 essay called "Here is New York," he wrote how New York gives people "the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy" in a crowded city. It's the idea that in this packed, bustling place, you can still move through life unobserved, even unknown. Parker's using that idea while Spenser's tailing Rambeaux, highlighting how loneliness and disconnection run through the novel.