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We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet and essayist. What is Found There, ch. 3 (1993).

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