You can always determine a person’s class, upbringing, and (I will go there) cultivation by the level of joy/excitement he/she expresses upon seeing the neon playing cards (Joker! King! Queen!) that zip by in this tunnel…

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The tunnel is between Mount Baker Station and Beacon Hill Station.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...