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Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing ...

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To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the di...

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What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to...

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Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities

Do you know how long God took to destroy the Tower of Babel, folks? Seven minutes. Do you know how l...

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There was Babylon and Nineveh; they were built of brick. Athens was gold marble columns. Rome was he...

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And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of ...

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Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life f...

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[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, ...

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Tom WolfeThe Bonfire of the Vanities

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four mill...

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