Reading what I did in Maps to Anywhere I first thought that the essays were going to have nothing to do with one another. However, when re-reading some parts of the essays, I realized that the essays where much like the connection that Tocqueville's had with the poems. That is to say that the essays do not fit together like puzzle pieces, but rather an author writing a new book that will make reference to past books already written. Despite this subtle connection that the essays have, each essay was unique in its own way. The example I"m going to choose is "Live Wire".
 The name alone installs a curiosity to what the essay could be referring to. However Bernard Cooper is taking the name "Live Wire" to a literal meaning. "Live Wire" was a simple story about a wire that had fallen onto the street. A wire that could still be harmful and be enough of a story to get a person's attention. However, the real story, or essay rather, was how it was constructed. The essay was almost poetic, in which case I mean to dictate as literally poem like. The way it flows is elegant and easy, with a gravity only poetry can bring. Part of the trait that made it seem so poetic was the fact that it was all one sentence. All the words that fit perfectly in the "paragraph" are just one lengthy sentence. In poems this is often a style a person might use when writing. The rarity of the use in essays extenuates the mood of the story. The continuous sentence gives the reader the feeling that they themselves are in the situation, that the experience really left a mental impression on the author. Instead of reading something that would be absolutely terrifying, having heard of injuries caused by live wires, it manages to turn the event into an art piece. The fact that this was just one of many of the essays that Cooper wrote fascinates me.