"There are eight million stories in the naked city," he intoned. "You remember that program? Used to be on television some years back." "I remember." "They had that line at the end of every show. 'There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.' " "I remember it." "Eight million stories," he said. "You know what you got in this city, this fucked-up toilet of a naked fucking city? You know what you got? You got eight million ways to die."