On Thursday, Chinatown was bright and dusty, like an over-exposed postcard from a previous era.<\/p>\n

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I hailed a cab and in the car the song Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd was playing. The driver, silent and seeming tense, was leaning forward and very aggressively keeping beat to the music with his fingers against the steering wheel.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey teacher, leave those kids alone!\u201d Pink Floyd sang from past.<\/p>\n

The driver was lost to the music, and the look on his face indicated an angry agreement with it, rather than a pleasant remembrance of the time the song recalled. Thirty seconds or so likely passed, and then as if thinking out loud, \u00a0in a hard, Jamaican accent, \u00a0he said, \u201cSome music stays with us, man.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cYeah, but it always brings something else with it, doesn\u2019t it?\u201d I responded. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s never alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

He shot me a look, an unfriendly one, that suggested I had intruded somewhere I wasn\u2019t welcome, and I receded into the back seat– the rest of the drive was quiet, but for his small, out of key voice occasionally singing along to the radio, \u201cAll in all it was all just bricks in the wall, we wuz all just bricks in the wall\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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