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BrianSweeney's avatar

Despite high school English teacher Sister Judy’s instruction to write clear, crisp, and succinctly, I love, or rather find amusing, the long 19th century prose with their sometimes page long sentences, without that period. i.e Byron’s Child Harold’s Pilgrimage. Caught this in your piece:

“Anyway, here’s the impulsive choice I made that I later questioned, grew frightened by, and then resolved to banish from my skull, lest I betray my suspicions about “the system” in a fashion that might be deemed subversive by future Postmasters General and their goons, who, chances are, will soon have fleets of drones equipped with medium-range scanners tuned to the blips and beeps of nano-bots cunningly implanted in our bodies by the handling of official-looking envelopes printed with the words “Refund: First Installment.”

Hah.

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Ivan K's avatar

As always, very thoughtful. Privacy is a fragile good in such a thoroughly exhibitionist and conformist culture. To insist upon it seems peculiarly countercultural now, and that alone is worrisome.

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