The lobby was an atomized horde of bodies slouched over their screens.

Fifteen years ago, I resisted the smart phone.
Why would I want to be tethered to the internet?

Now, I abstain in public so my enlightened ass can feel “present”.

Snobbery has come full circle.

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literature as an existential fuction, the search for lightness as a reaction to the weight of being.

from “Lightness” in Six Memos for the Next Millenium, by Calvino.

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