Word: babylon
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...Like many other TV freaks, Necratog, 21, also downloads favorite programs and burns them onto CDs. His archives include 400 CDs that hold more than a thousand Buffy, Babylon 5, South Park and Star Trek shows. But Buffy is his favorite. "I'll watch the same episode three or four times in a row," he says. "I've watched some over 20 times altogether...
...plunged into blood and darkness. Perhaps I will come to regard my own 2001 summer—spent, like the summers of so many Harvard students, amid the topless towers and teeming streets of Manhattan Island—as a fleeting glimpse of a golden age, a vision of Babylon before the judgment of the Lord came upon...
...kidding? Bring on the gaudy Babylon...
...game is at its most frenzied at Babylon. The man by the pillar smiles hesitantly at Fifi. She grins back, pops a mint and slinks on over. They mouth words to each other, not that they can really hear over the techno din. He says he works for a financial company. She says she owns stocks. Pretty soon he's got his hand on the small of her back and is drawing her closer. When he reaches over and nuzzles her neck, she closes her eyes and leans her head back. But only for a moment. Soon, she opens...
...strobe exposes the girls for what they really are. The flashes of harsh, white light strip Fifi's face of her makeup - and her contrivance. In that freeze-frame instant, Fifi isn't a sexy sophisticate, just an innocent girl searching for love. In a place called Babylon, where Shanghai babies pretend to be women...