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book. Instead of Moby-Dick I’ll call it Suck My Interdimensional Dick—
or they start loudly complaining about all the other motherfuckers being loud.
This ain’t the kind of city where you can start from nothing anymore and have a real chance, and I started with less than nothing. American Dream been a sucker bet.
New York is huge, but considering the sheer number of interpersonal connections one makes in the ordinary course of life, it’s actually kind of amazing that Brooklyn doesn’t randomly run into people she knows all the time.
Some people have no business being both manipulative and deeply kind.
With that identity comes the ugly knowledge that sometimes those immigrants get attacked in their homes and dragged off by secret police who put them into camps and take all their belongings on a whim, or because some politician thinks he can score points by seeming tough on “illegals,” or—
Cop or mob boss? Cop, Manny decides in a split instant, though there’s so little difference between the two groups in New York that he has to rely more on intuition than any real evidence. What decides him is the man’s American-flag lapel pin. Mafia—even ones from long-Americanized ethnic groups—don’t need nationalism as one of their weapons.
Long Island, God help us all, I don’t think I could fucking take that.”
We’ll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you’re lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren’t our fault and any one of us will go off on you.
Politics aside, though, she still believes, because the universe—all the universes—are too complex and beautiful for her not to see divinity in the whole arrangement.
“You people really will overlook anything so long as the monsters are polite.”
