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lrb.co.ukBriefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy
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Poor John Field!—I trust he does not read this, unless he will improve by it—thinking to live by some derivative old-country mode in this primitive new country—to catch perch with shiners. It is good bait sometimes, I allow. With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam’s
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Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
James Williams analyzes the impact of digital technologies on human attention in the "attention economy," arguing that they often undermine individual freedom and self-regulation by prioritizing engagement over meaningful goals.
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