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Sudetenland Tales
Page 151
And I’m always tempted to fill these in with ‘Siðmennt, félag siðrænna húmanista á Íslandi’ or ‘Siðmennt, Icelandic Society of Moral Humanists’ in plain English, but I don’t want to get stuck in a holding room for six hours having to explain Icelandic humanism to someone who really doesn’t get the joke.
It all hit me; the wall of heat generated by the light reflecting off the garbage strewn streets, the bright sun, the government issue tents, the thousands of people outside, the lines of cabbies looking for fares, the motorcycles everywhere.
I didn’t know what to expect, but my only point of comparison is my time in Bangalore, and New York City is now Bangalore times ten. Bangalore has no height restrictions and said fuck it, you can build a fifty story tower if you give the right democrat a suitcase of money. They’ll say that they’re issuing variances to