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New York notes

18 November 2017

9:00 AM

18 November 2017

9:00 AM

Tantamount to a speechcrime

New York is wonderfully offensive. Offensive to nature with its gravity-defying towers. Offensive to the tragic, sexless soldiers of Islam, for whom this den of iniquity and other fab things is sin made flesh, or at least concrete and steel. Offensive to eco-bores who cannot bear the thought of how much waste is created by the city’s working, eating, dancing hordes (12,000 tonnes a day, since you ask).

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