Technology Flashcards

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the kind of stupid death that never

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the kind of stupid death that never would’ve happened in the old world. He stepped on a nail and died of infection.

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An antidepressant…

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An antidepressant… I thought I’d be home in Arizona by now

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the era of light pollution

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had come to an end.

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he felt himself disappearing

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he felt himself disappearing into the landscape…he had never felt so alive or so sad.” p193 Description of New York from the plane – “a sea of electric lights”. p195

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“The sound of the engines

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was startling after these days of silence.” p246

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“the beauty of flight”

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“the improbability of it” “the sound of the engines faded…folded into silence” p246

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“But he kept getting trapped behind

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Phone zombies, people half his age who wandered in a dream with their eyes fixed on their screens. “ p160

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why in his life –

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had he never recognised the beauty of flight”

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“for a whole decade

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after.. I kept looking at the sky”

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