Why did I go to America? I’d like to say great principles lay behind it but in truth I think I agreed to do it because it would likely be fun and would definitely be better than working. While I was there the World changed. And I don’t mean that like I met some girl with good hair and I wanted to dance and be an acrobat for the rest of my days. I mean the World changed for everyone. Someone flew two big planes into two huge towers and everything went sideways. Yet I think I went there to try new beers and see whether the women did rollerblade in bikinis along Santa Monica Boulevard like the pictures said they did. While I was there it seemed to me that Britain rose in my imagination
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