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...drinking Cook’s from paper dining hall cups. When the champagne was gone I decided it would be a good idea to make myself multiple rounds of disgusting-tasting drinks from whatever random alcohol was lying around. I didn’t have any Coke, so I used those little strawberry-shaped candies with the hard outside and the soft inside as a chaser. Yummy...
Some things, clearly, they would rather not have changed at all, no matter what any market surveys seem to predict. "Baseball, hamburgers, Coke--they're all the fabric of America," cried Gay Mullins, the much quoted Seattle real estate man and triumphant noisemaker who filed suit to prevent the company from depriving him of the pause that refreshes...
Critics of the new Coke were probably asking too much when they demanded that the company cancel its revised formula and return to the old one. But they had a point of sorts in asking why, if the company didn't want the old formula, it couldn't give it to someone who wanted to preserve the drink. Now that Coke has answered that, it will manufacture both formulas on its own, and the new and the old can lie down together at last like the lion and the lamb in a peaceable kingdom (disturbed only by the rumblings...
...that we have reached this refreshing pause, why can't some other deplorable changes in our lives be undone? Or, rather, why can't we make some changes in a different direction? If they can bring back the old Coke, why can't they bring back the double-decker bus? And strawberries that have a taste? Not to mention chickens and tomatoes and potatoes? And milk that still has the cream on top, so that you can whip it and slather it over the tasty strawberries...
...left of this singular event, since the rubble of Hiroshima has long been bulldozed away, the dead cremated, the air blown clean. Today on streets over which the Bomb's cloud rose like a red-purple flower are coffeehouses where Mozart is played, gilded hotels with blazing chandeliers, COKE IS IT signs and the headquarters of the Mazda corporation. Everything faces forward, except that the name of the city can never be mentioned without invoking a past to which everyone is attached, and an immediate private silence. Hiroshima survives in the mind, which broods, denies, forgets and eventually must deal...