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But I imagine us both as warriors. Me, and the statue. United by the fight.
The Strength of the Few
James Islington
We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated. We became cognitive cyborgs as soon as we became fluent readers, and the consequences of that were profound.
Russi was typical of traffic agents in New York, and elsewhere: the work was no longer as gendered as it had once been, but the people who ticketed cars in big cities were often black or Hispanic. (The police force, by contrast, was mostly white—and lived mostly in Staten Island and the suburbs, compared with parking enforcers, who lived mostly in the city.)
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
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