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First City

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about New York City: and its existence as a sort of Platonic tourist ideal; what it's like to live in the city; Jane Jacobs' Death and Life. don't really have a grand takeaway for this one

Franzen, J. (2003). First City. In Franzen, J. How to Be Alone. Picador, pp. 179-194

a journalistic nickname for New York City OR an English village, proverbial for the foolishness of its inhabitants.

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Gothamite provinciality

—p.181 by Jonathan Franzen
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Gothamite provinciality

—p.181 by Jonathan Franzen
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the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes

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defined as "literally town-dwellers"

—p.182 by Jonathan Franzen
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defined as "literally town-dwellers"

—p.182 by Jonathan Franzen
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tributary of the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania

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Wissahickon schist

—p.185 by Jonathan Franzen
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Wissahickon schist

—p.185 by Jonathan Franzen
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a coarse-grained metamorphic rock that consists of layers of different minerals and can be split into thin irregular plates

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Wissahickon schist

—p.185 by Jonathan Franzen
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Wissahickon schist

—p.185 by Jonathan Franzen
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(adj) serving as a farewell OR (noun) a farewell address

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decidedly valedictory

—p.187 by Jonathan Franzen
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decidedly valedictory

—p.187 by Jonathan Franzen
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a lower-class Parisian republican in the French Revolution; an extreme republican or revolutionary

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"Anarchism" connecting with the sansculottes not by way of history but, rather, via "Cockroaches"

about The Encyclopedia of New York City

—p.188 by Jonathan Franzen
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"Anarchism" connecting with the sansculottes not by way of history but, rather, via "Cockroaches"

about The Encyclopedia of New York City

—p.188 by Jonathan Franzen
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pertaining to Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), French Algerian-born philosopher and founder of deconstruction

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The chief pleasure of the Encyclopedia lies in a kind of Derridean lateral slide of assocation.

—p.188 by Jonathan Franzen
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The chief pleasure of the Encyclopedia lies in a kind of Derridean lateral slide of assocation.

—p.188 by Jonathan Franzen
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