poppinjay says in a more polite way than i was going to what is happening with the conservative mythologies around crack.
it is clearest to me if you note that there is no parallel set of conservative memes about crank, which would enable a preservation of graphics (one letter difference) and a redirect of petit bourgeois resentment--but strangely it has never happened.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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