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hopping around — worse still, eating popcorn — they’d go completely berserk, and pronounce you pregnant, and put you in jail.” “Maybe we will go to Radio City Music Hall instead,” the Martians said. “Good choice,” I said. “You won’t stand out in New York, or not much. If anyone bothers you, accuse them of being specist. Throw in that you’re vegans.” “O.K.,” they said. “When we get back to Mars, we will an American book club. We wish to read David Foster Wallace, not to mention Edith Wharton and Raymond Carver and tons of others. It is the writers who convey the inner truth about a nation, despite themselves, yes? Will you join us on video?” “A pleasure,” I said. “Any reader is a friend of mine.”