"Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting:   the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous."

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To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would never allow to be done to ourselves. . . . New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

— Colson Whitehead