We give away the hours of the day. Our time without the machine is broken up by our time with it. Even if we are not using a phone or tablet, we forget what we are doing when we see one. If someone else glances at a device, we look at our own. We live as if in suspension, awaiting an interruption. In everyday life, our sense of time dissolves into a permanent rush. Even the precious moments just after wakefulness and just before sleep are sacrificed in the tiny glow. A Leib needs sleep in order to be sovereign and unpredictable; when we give sleep away to the screens, we are less ourselves and
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