Many must already have sensed, if
not remarked, what a paradox it is
for the big-box brick-and-mortar
toy giant to have thrown itself
upon the mercies of liquidation,
at the very apogee of fantasy's
dominion in America. What a moment
for plunging, with that diverting
concentration which only a great
hobby can sustain, into the craft-
ing of model airplanes, the sym-
pathies of glue playing a gallant
part. Is knitting still allowed,
in the vertiginous free-fall of
gender-tainted pastimes; and for
that matter, do boys still gather
mollusks at the quayside when the
tide runs out?
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