"Crowned not only with no history, but with no credible possibility of time for history, and consecrated by no uses save the commercial at any cost, they are simply the most piercing notes in that concert of the expensively provisional into which your supreme sense of New York resolves itself"
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Henry James, The American Scene (1907), Ch. 2: New York Revisited, pt. I
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