“Does the half-life of information correlate with the decay of our attention? Is the Internet a kind of temporal gyre, sucking up stories, like geodrift, into its orbit? What is its gyre memory? How do we measure the half-life of its drift?”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know.”
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“As a country, we’ve given up our birthright for even less than bread and pottage. We’ve given it up for nothing—although I’m sure some people somewhere are richer now.”
― Parable of the Talents
― Parable of the Talents
“My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people.”
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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