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xchrom

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3. that is the scene.

Reply to Enrique (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 14, 2012, 09:20 AM

Jun 2012

the wire -- in particular -- owed a lot of it's success to writing - 'capturing' - the language of 'the street'.

well, it isn't really 'captured' -- and i think the author would say that kind of colorful banter just goes a long way to mythologizing urban core citizens.

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