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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself:
I longed for artificial bacon bits, melted cheese in a shade of yellow unknown to nature, and creamy chocolate fillings, sometimes all in the same product. I wanted food that squirts when you bite into it or plops onto your shirt front in such gross quantities that you have to rise very, very carefully from the table and sort of limbo over to the sink to clean yourself up.
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As the economist Herman Daly once put it: "The current national accounting system treats the earth as a business in liquidation.
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In Anglo-Saxon times, according to Crippen, it was customary for someone offering a drink to say, "Wassail!" and for the recipient to respond "Drinkhail!" and for the participants to repeat the exercise until comfortably horizontal.
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