"Strange shift to be working," it seems to Maxine ...

[jody2.718]

Hey, just ask Rocco:

Night shift differential, Double time on the holiday-
Keep on working in the free world...

Happy Labor Day
jody
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" 'It's not a religion? These people who believe the Invisible Hand of the Market runs everything. They fight holy wars against competing religions like Marxism. Against all evidence that the world is finite, this blind faith that resources will never run out, profits will go on increasing forever, just like the world's population- more cheap labor, more addicted consumers.' " (p. 338)

"...at the intersection of Fresh and Arthur Kills, toxicity central, the dark focus of Big Apple waste disposal, everything the city has rejected so it can keep pretending to be itself...Every Fairway bag full of potato peels, coffee grounds, uneaten Chinese Food, used tissues and tampons and paper napkins and disposable diapers, fruit gone bad, yogurt past its sell-by date that Maxine has ever thrown away is up there someplace, multiplied by everybody in the city she knows, multiplied by everybody she doesn't know, since 1948, before she was even born..." (p. 166)