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Tear-Offs · October 19

His Hemisphere

19OctoberMondayTear-OffsToy figures in puffer parkas and goggles on a sunlit Greenland snowfield beneath jagged white mountains. A blue-violet star in a beanie and mask points, asking "Should we tell him?"; an amber sunburst holds up a tablet showing a globe, saying "Wrong end of the planet."; a huge laughing wrestler shouts "EMBRACE THE PENGUIN!"; a punk woman with a teal streak folds her arms; a chickadee in spectacles peers at the nearest penguin and says "Don't look at me. I just got here." An iridescent bubble-headed figure watches from a rock above. Beside them a long line of penguins in stars-and-stripes sweaters and bobble hats waves small American flags, the first trailing an enormous scarf and asking "Which way to Antarctica?" A wooden sign reads GREENLAND, and far off by a Greenlandic flag a toy Trump in a dark overcoat stands with his back turned.

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