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3 PM. Corner of 31st and 8th Avenue

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Forest

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64 West 48th Street

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315 Grand Street

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The clock

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445 West 23rd

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The fossil

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901 Avenue of the Americas

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Satellite business

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current surf

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Kansas Fried Chicken

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Hudson Express Elevator

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Imperial Parking

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From the top of the city,
There are thousands of views like these.

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I look down 
from an office building.

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a skyscraper 
and twenty-six floors below,

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almost all executives and secretaries

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they have long taken 
their taxis and their trains home.

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I look to the west, 
wondering how far I can see.

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If it's possible to find Ninth Avenue 
from one of these windows.

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In the distance I hear a sound like that of the ocean. 
I guess it's the traffic.

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I can't see anything of the eastern part of the city.

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ten years ago, 
When I first came to town,

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I had a job on the east side 
of a seller with a cart.

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To obtain the license, they told me
that I had to go to a municipal office,

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to a particular window 
and pay a small bribe to the employee.

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Almost every day 
I was pushing my cart from the garage

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to the same place on Ninth Avenue,
near the mouth of the Lincoln Tunnel.

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He sold roasted peanuts and soft drinks
in front of the electronics store

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and the used furniture outlet.

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Sometimes they sent me to other places,
depending on the weather,

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or from other sellers,

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or factors I didn't understand.

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But I almost always parked in that same place.

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And for a while that sidewalk tile was mine.

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He sold peanuts. 
I was standing behind my cart.

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And after a few weeks, 
For some I became a regular

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and for others I went 
becoming invisible little by little.

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I discovered that just by standing
selling behind the cart

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had placed a wall and a window

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from which I could see 
what was happening on the street

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in the block, in that long hallway
business and pedestrians.

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And as I became invisible,

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I was beginning to see things that I once
They had been invisible to me.

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As I stood there every day,
certain people became familiar.

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There was a hot dog vendor 
who was selling next to me, an old and quiet Italian.

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And there was an Asian woman who sold
jewelry, toys, sunglasses, and more,

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on a spread blanket.

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He didn't speak English.

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I traded a chain for a soda once.

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And from time to time,

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a man appeared who was fishing 
the items that had fallen

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under the subway bars.

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After I came a few times,
We started talking.

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I had been working on this for years.

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He had devised a wide variety of systems 
and instruments to recover objects

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depending on its weight, shape, 
and how they had fallen

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I could tell you many things about certain metals,
just because of its distant appearance

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in the shadows under the iron grate.

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And he knew a lot about the city.

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There were tunnels, he told me,
tunnel networks.

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And shelters under some sidewalks.

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Had risen from the deepest holes
rare coins and jewelry.

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Lately he was concentrating on fallen objects 
under the subway grates

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but before, he had rescued and sold other things:

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scrap metal, clothing, electronics, used books.

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I asked him if he had any old images,
If you had photographs or books left

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that you might want to trade or sell.

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He said he didn't have much, 
maybe just some loose things.

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Weeks later he returned.

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I had textbooks, video tapes, and something else.

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A notebook full of handwritten lists.

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Page after page of places, objects, incidents.

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They all had something to do with the city.

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There wasn't much work that day.
Nobody bought and didn't have much to do.

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We didn't have the right to read at work

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and you never know when they may be watching you.

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But I was able to hold the book under the cart

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and pretend I was counting the change.

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The book was not dirty nor did it fall to pieces.

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but you knew he had been hanging around for a while.

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It reminded me a little, on the outside, of something from school.

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Maybe a notebook from the science lab.

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Inside, they looked like a salesman's accounts.

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Hundreds of addresses, dates, and so on.

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But it was carefully divided 
in chapters of some kind.

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And things were grouped with others
for some reason.

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And some of the groups had 
titles or headings.

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It was those titles that made everything strange.

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The fisherman on the sidewalk passed
in the morning, usually.

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And then again in the late afternoon.

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I asked if I could read it for a while.
and return it to him later.

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I knew I couldn't go anywhere,

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so I looked at the book for hours that day.


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When he came back, I asked him if he would sell it to me.

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He wanted ten bucks for it.

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He said it was unique.

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I offered him five.

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He said he couldn't go below eight.

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I let him go.

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I never saw him again.

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I saw other people fishing the bars

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but never to him.

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Sales were high 
in the street vending business.

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With this company 
you could never have your own cart.

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Some ran well and others 
They were very difficult to push and maneuver.

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You never knew if one of the owners 
It could be there.

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More than anything, you tried not to get bored and watched.

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There are very few public toilets in the city.

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And in very few places they would give you 
not even a free glass of water.

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I had to maintain everything I sold 
hidden inside the car,

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Or it would end up covered with a layer of soot dust. 

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And I wasn't making much money.

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At the end of the day,

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the owners of the cart company 
They collected your profits in paper bags.

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I counted the number of sodas you had left.

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They weighed the remaining peanuts 
in the car and they paid you your share.

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Then they took the rest, 
They said they were going to the office and left.

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It took me months to discover that there was no office.

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That they were actually going to a bar around the corner.

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They put the paper bags on a table in the back, 
They counted the money and drank beer.

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Once we were all called to a meeting

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and they told us to put 
fewer peanuts in the bags we sold.

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The city had a heavy hand
with vendors in certain neighborhoods.

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And things were getting
tense in the garage

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where they rented 
parking lots to store cars.

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I tried to put a little less in the bags

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and in a few days the clients 
They were already getting angry.

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One day someone started yelling at me about it.
and I muttered something back to him.

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To myself, I thought.

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But the next thing I remember 
It's his hands around my neck,

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and the cart skidding sideways into traffic.

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And also suddenly, he let go of me and left without paying.

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The end of the season was approaching, 
For me, in any case.

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Anyway the cart company 
It didn't last much longer either.

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The last I heard of them was that they were 
selling computer parts on Canal Street.

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The older Italian who parked 
Next to me he is still a seller.

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I see him often on the street.

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And as for the strange notebook,
I forgot it for a while.

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There are millions of little puzzles 
that are not going to be resolved.

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Like a few years ago, I had to use booths
often and I began to realize

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that every phone had the words "Pray"

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or "Worship God" scratched in the metal
from the coin box.

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And it was always the same letter.

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I looked at it for years, and it was always there.

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Well, I continued with other jobs 
and got to know other parts of the city.

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I walked a lot and eventually I had a car and drove.

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I had a delivery job 
for a company that sold flowers and balloons.

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And then he worked in a few offices.

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For a while I even worked on my car.

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215 West 34th Street 9:12 a.m.

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Broadway Star Nellie

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Mercury

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Atomic number.

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John Street 1:21 a.m. 1980

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Lafayette Street 11:18 p.m. 1981

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The Well

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The Archive

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The sleeping man

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The monument

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The periodic table

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Mendel's law

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The lighthouse

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The hourglass

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The flood

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The alchemist

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Victory

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Conservation of matter.

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Curbfront. Clinton and Delancey

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Broadway; 10th Street 2:04 a.m. 1983

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But there was a side effect
the one I met.

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for which the book must be blamed or thanked.

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And, as I travel through the city,

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Sometimes I hear a voice making lists.

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And sometimes they are found in groups, classifications, 
sets and subsets.

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In other words...

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the book stayed in my head 
Like a song I didn't know I knew.

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And parts of the book came back 
in flashes, bits and pieces.

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Sometimes the list explodes 
For reasons I can't guess.

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Certain places, things, incidents...

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that seem to fit together like words in a puzzle

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with a continually changing shape

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of which subject I was never sure from the beginning.

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Yes there was a list of dates 
and prices under the heading: Atomic Number.

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And that there were other titles like "Perpetual Motion"

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"Rope"

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and "Burial at sea"

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Asbury Tap

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Asbury Sink

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Asbury Sink

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Potential versus kinetic energy

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It was written next to a list
from hundreds of liquor stores.

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I don't remember most of it anymore. 
of the groups and titles.

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There are handwritten notices
around the city

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Photocopies, leaflets, posters.

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I often see them in front of the post office.

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Most of them are religious.

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Sometimes they are about things that have happened to someone.

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About how Correos doesn't want to accept your checks...

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Someone in the government has a thing for them.

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Detailed connections 
between agencies, doctors, officials.

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Others are more difficult to decipher.

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Something about reading faces and messages in the clouds.

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Number systems, patents, theories 
of electricity, science, business schemes.

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I used to read all these pages.

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And where I saw handwritten messages,
I read them too.

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I could have been looking for clues
Or maybe it just became my habit.

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Now, I tell you about the 75 and 40 special.

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It seems that wherever you go, 
There is someone who wants you to move.

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Because of what is being celebrated there.

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Yes, it's getting to be disgusting.

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This is the Savior Preacher. 
He corners me here to preach.

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He put me on Fifth Avenue to raise the alarm.

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There are charges against my client. Fuck him in the ass 
to the almighty, if we all die.

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Whoever wrote the book seemed so thorough...

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and organized, which I felt I had 
to find the meaning.

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But everything was beginning to seem more useless and crazy.

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The idea that someone would think
that could connect so many things.

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That there was some kind of order.

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After all, no one really makes the world.

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It's just the place you are born to.

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Radio, cassettes

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Russian radios, AM/FM, AC/DC $19.95, wave radios
cuts with 5 bands and 7 bands.

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AM/FM radios at half price.

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In our section 
of suitcases, backpacks from 15 dollars.

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Large sizes to carry everything you want.

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Come in and look. We are liquidating.

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Goodbye Broadway, goodbye 42nd Street. This is authentic, 
It's not a joke.

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Our days are numbered.

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Look at the store, look what we have, 
choose something.

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And a salesman will give you a great price. 
Each item must be sold.

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We must vacate the premises. 
It's the last thing we sell.

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Our watches section has watches 
on sale with discounts of more than 50%.

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We have dress watches 
for ladies and gentlemen.

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And Berg watches at 75% off.

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Try them on and you'll want to leave with them on.

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Each watch has a 5-year warranty.

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We accept Visa, MasterCharge, 
American Express, Diner's Card.

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If you want to see...

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If you want to see what you want, 
ask the friendly seller for help.

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Nobody felt that New York
 It is discussed in church. Three for 10 dollars.

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I lived outside the city for a while 
and took the train to go to work.

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I lost track of the city and the major
part of the time I forgot about the book.

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It began to seem like a distant dream, 
but also the city itself.

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When I moved back there
There were areas that I didn't recognize.

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And the booths no longer read "Pray."

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Blocks of buildings had given way 
to new office towers

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but many of them 
They couldn't find tenants.

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It was while I was driving downtown, 
looking at those new buildings...

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that another of the titles of the book 
It came to me clearly.

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and it was the phrase "Glass is a liquid."

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I overheard a woman talking about Atlantic City.

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He said that inside the casino 
I couldn't know what time it was

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or what was happening outside.

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But inside, it was always raining money.

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When I heard that, I remembered that the book 
It had a heading called "The Rain of Coins"

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I'll tell you. I have a city underground.

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6:45 a.m.

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The engine.

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We will try to answer your questions 
with all our recorded messages.

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Tunnel

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If you are calling from a phone 
with keys, press 1.

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38 times 12

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Museum

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The reliquary

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34th Street Channel

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Good evening racing fans. These are 
live results.

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In Yonkers, the winner of the sixth race
Dee Donna Ridley by Frank C.

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79 equal, 30-80, 15-20

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Second seed, Sprightly Al 5-40, 11-40...

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The Observatory

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The Island

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From 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.

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Patron Saint

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The Pendulum

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The Registry

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The Passage

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The lists, the book memories...

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seem to be triggered by some objects 
and places that had something in common.

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Perhaps with more strength than ever, 
I hear them in discount stores

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in passages where there is no climate

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and the seasons mark them 
the different types of offers.

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I don't know why a place provokes
the same feeling as another,

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What unites the city?

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I don't even remember what buildings 
They used to be here, a month or so ago.

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I know everything can't be important,

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a printed business card for a reason 
and pulled by another.

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The measured distance 
from the building to the pipe.

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The signs hidden behind others 
signs, on the sides of buildings.

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You will have the total demand.

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Demand for consumer goods, 
more business demand for investment.

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Haribo!

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Haribo!

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If it were for ten thousand dollars a year...

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I would spend, say, nine thousand 
in consumer items.

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It's been ten years since my job 
as a cart seller.

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I pass through the streets of this city
and I still wonder

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who wrote the lost book.

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Sometimes I still hear the voices 
making lists in my head.

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I enter a hallway and see twenty others.

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A showcase becomes 
in fifty shop windows.

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A warehouse for rent,

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thousand warehouses for rent.

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I look and see a piece of paper face down.

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A program to lose weight,

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a job application,

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a broken letter.

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I keep seeing pieces of paper 
and I have to turn them around.

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I'm in an elevator...

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and the numbers continue further
of the number of floors of the building,

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beyond prices 
from the discount store,

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beyond the numbers 
of this week's lottery.

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A cashier is counting money...

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five dollars missing 
and is waiting to speak to the manager.

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A man drinks soup, 
read the civic center newspaper.

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Another sets up chairs for a meeting.

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A woman waits for the bus.

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Who wrote the lost book?

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 �There really are laws, systems, 
scales, balances?

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What is the city made of?

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Sometimes it seems that the city 
They are the rubble of stories and memories,

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layers and layers.

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And that the objects, the remains of things,
They are like the skin of the city.

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Many of these objects, these debris, 
They are the relics of commerce.

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Or the simple exchange of goods and services.

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Most people spend their lives
earning a living

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The loss of a man or woman
It is someone else's gain.

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Time is money.

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A man sells puppets 
on the corner of Sixth Avenue and 40th Avenue.

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It's 1993 and I'm watching from my car.

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On the other side of the street, to my right,
There is a giant clock covered in plaster.

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Somewhere on the avenue,
I hear the sound of someone sweeping.