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very narrow isthmus, allowing only a narrow two lane road as the only connection
between the land masses. Many of the lower classes traveled this road, because
there was lots of menial work that needed to be done.
You know, cooks, valets, gardeners, governesses,
nannies, au-pairs, chauffeurs etc.
Anyway, here's where we get back to that nasal part. As our group of aristos had
less and less contact with the rest of the world, the nasality of their accent
became more and more pronounced, to the point that it started affecting the size
of their nostrils which became larger and larger and larger. As a matter of fact, the size
and sensitivity of one's nose became a mark of distinction
influencing the desirability of a proper life partner. As their nostrils grew
their speech became more and more intelligible to outsiders. These "aliens",
speaking a language that was impossible to pronounce with only your average nose
were not even making an effort to be understood. They didn't seem to care about
worldly affairs and after a while a "Gulliver's Travels" fan dubbed them the new
Houyhnhnms. Less and less menials frequented Western Long Island because they
could not understand what these strange people, with the otherworldly noses were
trying to say to them. Eventually, everyone would just drive past the fork to
Western Long Island and go about their own business.
It is said that William Hearst was the last outsider to set foot on Western Long
Island. He was not one of them, but being so rich and influential he had managed
to keep his place for a long time. Of course he was rarely there and when he
was, he usually came and went with his own very large entourage, not at all
mingling with the Western Long Islanders. Be that as it may,
he may have been overheard saying
that the place looked totally deserted with not a soul around.
The road to Western Long Island was quite quickly covered with weeds - the entrance to it, that no one used anymore anyway,
was hidden by the trees and vegetation that border all of New York state's highways. The last few native
Eastern Long Islanders that had set foot on that other part of Long Island have
since passed on to a different and hopefully better
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