BUYING GUIDE: THE PERFECTLY USELESS SOUVENIR

walking home, we're certain of it -- although it's true that, in fact, we certainly haven't been here before. but "there's spring in the air; they're sweeping the streets." "i end up buying a coded, that is, completely useless, souvenir." and "how horrible it is when crucial moments in our lives can only be expressed in words so banal that they in turn make the moments themselves banal." i'm glad it's over, but i'm even gladder that i didn't miss the fireworks.