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I took the reviewer seriously that said things don’t really get going until a third of the way through the book and indeed 2090’s on are great to reflect on. Just park your 21st social lens and look at some of the ideas Shelly was exploring 200 years ago.

over two hundred plant varieties observed by Thoreau had since disappeared from the Walden vicinity

The chapter on dacha and how the culture around them changed is fascinating. Also sad.

The section on queues is my favourite so far.

“Yes, it was coming, the generations of the ancient would be left to their own end. The grandmothers would feed the great-grandmothers in their final falls, the ones in their seventies would tuck in the sleepers who were in their eighties, nineties, hundreds”

I think in 2013 there was yet to be imagined lifespans might decrease.