From the day
Perspective: The Future Historian · Sight
The morning sun catches the sharp, high-waisted silhouettes of wool coats hurrying past the newsstand, where the bold ink screams: GOV. EDGE WINS AT JERSEY POLLS; An Easy Victor Over Rivals in Fight for Republican Senatorial Nomination. LA MONTE TO OPPOSE HIM. I watch a man in a stiff felt hat squint at the details of the voting, ignoring the low hum of a passing motor car and the scent of rye bread wafting from the bakery. It is a lousy, gray turn of the season, yet these political shifts are merely the first gears grinding toward a century of centralization I can already see unfolding.