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Faster and faster.
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Distances are no longer counted in miles but in minutes.
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The automobile shapes new suburbs
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where every home is a castle,
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A safe distance from the asphyxiated city centers,
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And where neat rows of houses huddle round dead-end streets.
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The model of a lucky few countries...
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Has become a universal dream,
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Preached by televisions all over the world.
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Even here in Beijing,
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It is cloned, copied and reproduced...
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In these formatted houses that have wiped pagodas of the map.