In honour of Gaius Petronius, Swift and other titans of the satirical form.
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So, one morning in August 2020 when folks turned on the news and heard that Beijing was suddenly sitting there on the banks of the Chattahoochee, looking back at Atlanta like a Lion staring at an Antelope, well, they had to take notice. This wasn’t at all like Phenix City or Eufaula, or hell, even Columbus.
This was serious. Setting aside questions of the physics involved in relocating a city of twenty-two million people across an ocean and most of another continent, there was the reality of competition.
