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Also, a review marks the 10 th anniversary of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities , noting its undue pessimism: "After all, the economic boom of the 1980s is still humming in the '90s; New York itself is a vastly cleaner, safer place than the city Wolfe described.
His relationship with the renowned traveler had ended in some acrimony after just eight hours, during which time Sixpence had managed to consign the whole of her insect collection (painstakingly accumulated for the British Museum) to the bonfire which he had lit in the compound outside her chalet for the express purpose of burning the rubbish from within it.
They carried books, not to a lecture but to a bonfire on which were burned the works of Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Stefan Zweig, Albert Einstein, and Sigmund Freud, as well as Proust, Zola, Gide, H.G.
Even the graffiti on the subway cars, so lovingly described in Bonfire , have been cleaned up."
I've always favored the alternative plan--small, unmanned probes, along with a gigantic annual bonfire of $1,000 bills folded into origami cranes.