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It's the afternoon of Wednesday, I've been in New York less than twenty four hours, my friend F and I walk out of the Columbia campus to the corner of 115th and Broadway, and by the trash can at the corner someone's just dumped two cartons of books. I pick up a hard bound copy of Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard, F picks up Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. Just like that. Welcome to Noo Yawk.