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On youth in Manhattan:
"The problem is there are just too many of them. You can't throw a brick on this island without concussing one. I wish I had more restraint. But I can't help but hate how they look at me, I hate their interchangeable bodies, their mass-rehearsed attitudes, their cars that look like boxes, like baseball caps, like artificial enlargements, their loud advertising, their beeps and clicks and trings, I hate how they speak words as though they're chewing them, how they assume the business of the world revolves around them - how they're right - and how everywhere this cult of youth, this pedamorphic dumbing-down, has whored beauty - duped, drugged, damaged, pixelated it and everywhere turned it to plastic"
- from Nam Lee's 'Meeting Elise'
And, seriously, I suggest reading his collection of short stories called "The Boat" the first short story alone is worth the purchase.
"The problem is there are just too many of them. You can't throw a brick on this island without concussing one. I wish I had more restraint. But I can't help but hate how they look at me, I hate their interchangeable bodies, their mass-rehearsed attitudes, their cars that look like boxes, like baseball caps, like artificial enlargements, their loud advertising, their beeps and clicks and trings, I hate how they speak words as though they're chewing them, how they assume the business of the world revolves around them - how they're right - and how everywhere this cult of youth, this pedamorphic dumbing-down, has whored beauty - duped, drugged, damaged, pixelated it and everywhere turned it to plastic"
- from Nam Lee's 'Meeting Elise'
And, seriously, I suggest reading his collection of short stories called "The Boat" the first short story alone is worth the purchase.