We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.

A story about the way he handled a threatened strike at his Hawthorne track was indicative of the roughshod way he did business. He invited four strike negotiators to his office, where he dealt a knockout blow to each, laying them out unconscious on the floor. Then he went outside and announced that the pending strike was off.

And you think you're so clever and classless and free / But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

What does this hieroglyph mean?