In the immortal Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes a scene in which his two protagonists, Christian and Faithful, have arrived in the town of Vanity Fair. The town is something of a mashup between the temple scene just before Jesus scourges it in the Gospels and a contemporary place like Time Square. Commerce is the language everyone speaks and everyone understands.
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