I was reading an article from the New Yorker yesterday - it's the January 10th edition, if you're keeping score - an only moderately interesting article about this woman promoting Freudian psychoanalysis in China. I can't pretend that I was following the article very closely, but suddenly something arrested my attention. It said, "afterward, he invited me to his home in Beijing, near Tiantonyuan, a cluster of pale, pointy high-rises which is famous for being the largest housing compound in China (it has four hundred thousand residents)." FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND. In a housing project. Can you imagine? A single development almost the size of Boston?
The world is a big, crazy place.
Gabe Kuttner was talking about an article in the recent New Yorker about Scientology and apparently that one was pretty cool too.
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