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Pico Iyer's Short Story 'Where Worlds Collide'

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In the short story, "Where Worlds Collide", by Pico Iyer, one's background affects his or her perception of a given situation to the amount of experience they have. For example, "...with the maps their cousins have drawn for them and the images they've brought over from Cops and Terminator 2; they come out, dazed, disoriented...," reveals that, because they don't have much background information on their location their perception of the situation is confusing. It will cost them $16 if they lose their parking ticket, they read; around them is unending cacophony: anti theft devices, sirens, and car-door

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