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  • New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to invade the precincts of supposed progress, to lay chill hands on the heedless present, which does not know how to identify the forces that tug at its rationality.

    Luc Sante (2016). “Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York”, p.10, Macmillan