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The Biggest Change in the Shortest Period of Time
I find so much of america dispiritingly ugly, but i've learned to prefer that. That it keeps our minds open other things. And the towns that are in a way picture perfect, like ghent or bruge, or bergin, norway, where i just was, ah, that's stultifying. To grow up in paris, maybe now, at this point is limiting. It somehow can't be good for a public intellectual. I'm not sure i can rank anything as the very most extreme, but i first went to china 30 years ago, and i've been there many times since. The idea that you can see things changing almost in