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Everywhere John Liu has traveled this week he has found a crowd of people waiting for him, hanging on his every word.

They were members of the citys press corps, and Mr. Liu treated them to a rolling, week-long, five-borough press conferencea dialogue that read as if it could be snatched from a piece of absurdist opera, key words and phrases thrown together and repeated ad nauseam. Mr. Liu himself starred as the antihero, trying to keep his timbre steady as he falls deeper and deeper into the abyss.

Scene: A Lunar New Year Celebration at a dim sum restaurant in Chinatown. Mr. Liu onstage feeding two Chinese dragons a piece of felt bait suspended from a pole while a three-piece percussion orchestra bangs out a song next to him. On his way out the door

Press: Mr. Comptroller, have you been interviewed at all by the feds?

Mr. Liu: This was a wonderful event.

Press: Is there anything you feel like you have done wrong regarding your campaign fund-raising?

Mr. Liu: I feel very privileged to be in a position to serve New Yorkers and will continue to do so.

Press: Are you concerned that some members of your staff will be implicated in this growing fund-raising scandal?

Mr. Liu: I feel very privileged to serve. Thank you for coming here. This was a wonderful event.

It was a scene played out with only slight variation all around the city, like a traveling road show or a pop-up piece of performance art, the protagonist surrounded by his chorus.

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