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Snyggt jobbat av Markus Wilhelmson i dagens DN Söndag, där han i en lång, välresearchad artikel parafraserar Gay Taleses klassiska reportage New York Is a City of Things Unnoticed från 1960.
Verkar inte finnas på nätet ännu, men originalet kan hittas i den här samlingen.
New York is a city of things unnoticed. It is a city with cats sleeping under parked cars, two stone armadillos crawling up St. Patrick's Cathdral, and thousands of ants creeping on top of the Empire State Building. The ants probably were carried there by winds or birds, but nobody is sure; nobody in New York knows any more about the ants than they do about the panhandler who takes taxis to the Bowery; or the dapper man who picks trash out of Sixth Avenue trash cans; or the medium in the West Seventies who claims, "I'm clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsensuous.
Anekdoten är ett underskattat magasinsjournalistiskt verktyg.
Verkar inte finnas på nätet ännu, men originalet kan hittas i den här samlingen.
New York is a city of things unnoticed. It is a city with cats sleeping under parked cars, two stone armadillos crawling up St. Patrick's Cathdral, and thousands of ants creeping on top of the Empire State Building. The ants probably were carried there by winds or birds, but nobody is sure; nobody in New York knows any more about the ants than they do about the panhandler who takes taxis to the Bowery; or the dapper man who picks trash out of Sixth Avenue trash cans; or the medium in the West Seventies who claims, "I'm clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsensuous.
Anekdoten är ett underskattat magasinsjournalistiskt verktyg.
Av Konrad Olsson kl 12:03
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