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“Later, I remember to tell Ben about the girl. “Seconds!” I say, but he is unmoved. “People always talk about email and phones and how they alienate us from one another, but these sorts of fears about technology have always been with us,” he claims.
When electricity was first introduced to homes, there were letters to the newspapers about how it would undermine family togetherness. Now there would be no need to gather around a shared hearth, people fretted. In 1903, a famous psychologist worried that young people would lose their connection to dusk and its contemplative moments.
Hahaha!
(Except when was the last time I stood still because it was dusk?)”
― Weather
When electricity was first introduced to homes, there were letters to the newspapers about how it would undermine family togetherness. Now there would be no need to gather around a shared hearth, people fretted. In 1903, a famous psychologist worried that young people would lose their connection to dusk and its contemplative moments.
Hahaha!
(Except when was the last time I stood still because it was dusk?)”
― Weather
“My # 1 fear is the acceleration of days. No such thing supposedly, but I swear I can feel it.”
― Weather
― Weather
“If I saw no humour in my unraveling, I'd have been dead long ago.”
― Death Valley
― Death Valley
“This was just what people did now. We went from emotion to phone. This was how you didn’t die in the twenty-first century.”
― The Pisces
― The Pisces
“I don’t know that we are ever really okay in life, but there are times when we feel closer to it -- when we don’t remember what it feels like to suffer.”
― The Pisces
― The Pisces
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