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“Poor earth, poor stars, poor flesh. Without a Giver, they never become themselves.” (88)

“As this modern mindset came to dominate, eternity ceased gradually to serve as the measure and focus of human actions. In its place came the dictatorship of the clock, the schedule, and the Google Calendar alert, Marilynn Robinson’s ‘joyless urgency’, and the constant feeling that you ought to be getting more done.”