Excerpt from Open Love: A Romance of Greenwich Village To live, to love, that is life, a happy thought, but a strange one to use as a constitution for a settlement. Under this unwritten law the Bohemians settled in Greenwich Village, to love their art, their neighbors (their female neighbors preferred by the men) and themselves. Many strange secret organizations were formed, built upon strange ideals, but none so strange as that of the Populators club. It was an early spring morning, and the sun flowed into the meeting room of the club, lighting up every nook and corner. The room was one mass of drawings, portraits and bric-a-brac, completely hiding the bare walls, furnished in soft red, with a big mohagany table in the center. Henry Lowden, a middle aged artist who is yet to be recognized, was writing. He pauses and thinks for a moment, then rising, walks over to the window, picks up the calendar and mutters to himself, "The Day." Kerl the secretary enters through the big doors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.