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Reading Adam Gopnik on nostalgia for the lost city, which he seems to be against: “What happened to all that ugliness, all that interesting despair, all that violence and seediness, the cabdrivers in their undershirts and the charming hookers in their heels? This is standard-issue human perversity. After they gentrify hell, the damned will complain that life was much more fun when everyone was running in circles: Say what you will about the devil, at least he wasn’t antiseptic. We didn’t come to hell for the croissants.”
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:35:45 +0000

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