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The whole chapter.

And the whole endnote.

Taxonomy of liars

The cult of the athletic hero in the press.

"We chew statues?"

"Saying [nowadays technology] is bad is like saying traffic is bad, or heath-care surtaxes, or the hazards of annular fusion: nobody but Ludditic granola-crunching freaks would call bad what no one can imagine being without."

"those little pre-movie leg and posture adjustments, and look around with that sort of vacant intensity"

"It's snowing on the goddamn map, not the territory, you dick!"

Phone v. Videocall

"She said she thought at first she hallucinated me as a newborn again"

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