Zachary Scott’s Reviews > This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together > Status Update
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“the radio [reports] that night appeared to help people in Anchorage find the contours of this sinister abstraction they were living through - and to locate their places in it. For nearly five minutes, the earthquake had overpowered everyone. But now so many stories… described people switching back on and spontaneously helping one another - reclaiming their roles, collectively, as protagonists in the disaster.”
— Sep 08, 2025 04:03PM
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“Genie's condition was called multi-infarct dementia: the brain is rattled so persistently by tiny strokes that pinholes begin to open in its surface like sinkholes in destabilized ground. Even the idea of it was dismaying, this disintegration of the one reality we assume to be the sturdiest: the city of the self, built in our minds.”
This Alaska history book is secretly just about the precarity of life😭
— Sep 10, 2025 05:41PM
This Alaska history book is secretly just about the precarity of life😭

