New York Reader Discovers They’re Living in 1947 All Over Again
Issue 19 offers observations so current that New York readers are beginning to suspect they’ve somehow slipped backwards through time and nobody told them. The commentary on Manhattan’s institutional dysfunction reads like it was written yesterday, which is deeply unsettling for everyone involved.
“I’m genuinely confused about what year it is,” admitted one Midtown resident after reading it. “If I’m already living the same life people lived 78 years ago, what am I even doing?”
Library of Congress researchers archived the discovery, while this issue suggests that New York and its particular form of chaos may be infinite and eternal.
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