cultural evolutionary comment of the week

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"In a big city, people can choose peers who share their interests, just as Monet and Cezanne found each other in nineteenth-century Paris, or Belushi and Aykroyd found each other in twentieth-century Chicago." - Edward Glaeser, quoted in "Get Out of Town", an article on urban environmental/cultural planning by Nicholas Lemann, NYer, 6/27