Category: OIAAT
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Nine Dollars and Eighty Cents
Somewhere outside the city, along a quiet stretch of railroad track that has seen better centuries, a small group of people are walking slowly through the evening air reciting books to one another. One man is repeating a passage from Plato’s Republic. Another has taken responsibility for the Book of Ecclesiastes. A third is carrying…
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The Invention of Noon
It is the first weekend of March, which means that sometime tonight the nation will once again participate in its biannual ritual of arguing with the clock. On the East Coast, the last respectable piles of snow are receding into damp resignation. In Seattle, we have already endured the annual forecast that confidently predicted snow…
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Intelligence Is One Inference Away
London in the summer of 1854 was not a place you would have chosen for a restorative weekend. The Thames had developed ambitions beyond being a river and was attempting, with some success, to become a broth. Parliament conducted affairs of state within polite strolling distance of what was essentially a moving archive of human…
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