Buildings will collapse, power plants will stop generating electricity. Generals will drop atomic bombs on their own populations. Mad revolutionaries will run in the streets, crying fantastic slogans. I have often thought that it would begin in New York. This metropolis has all the symptoms of a mind gone berserk.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The New Yorker

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Singer, Isaac Bashevis. "The Cafeteria." The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 1968.