I think I’m more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between. This becomes apparent after only a few hours in New York. Most things are very big here. The houses, for example. The skyscrapers. They’re everywhere. And they’re big. I have a suspicion that it is partly about prestige. First, one guy built a house that was fairly tall, then his friend built one that was taller. And then everybody went hey guys, let’s build some goddamn houses, and let’s make them tall. Never mind what’s in them, let’s build them tall. Let’s build them
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