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The Beauty of the Bolero: Miramar (NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert)

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Birth Control Works2/08/2017 9:28:28 am PST

re: #471 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I read Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart last year: written in 2010, it describes life in America after the Great Currency Collapse.

The only people with status, privilege and anything beyond basic necessities are those with access to Yuan or Northern Euro-backed currencies…and the barely literate masses communicate by voice, video or emojis on their Äppärät (which is what they are called in the book).

And the last chapters are shockingly prophetic.

Purchased (from audible) but not yet read.