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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll

by Greil Marcus

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Aug 22, 2025 10:28PM

“I do think I saw more drunken folks, men and women, that day than I ever saw before…I would rather risk myself in an Indian fight than venture among these creatures after night. —Davy Crockett, on Irish immigrants in Five Points, 1834”
― Mental Floss, The Mental Floss History of the United States: The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America

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“Ralph's (and virtually all other) grocery stores provide customers with "frequent-buyer" or "Club member" cards that entitle holders (Group B) discounts not provided customers without cards (Group A), on the argument that people who tend to buy frequently (and/or buy in large quantities) have good reason to comparison shop and to obtain the frequent-buyer cards: they can prorate their search costs over a large number of purchases.11”
― Richard B. McKenzie, Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles

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