Sublime

“Garbage pickup is next week, Rachel.” She sounds guarded. She says Rachel’s name as if she’s signaling to other people within earshot.

George Packer in 2014, in a New Yorker piece detailing Amazon’s takeover of the book industry. With this data,

proselytizers

LaserWriter II  is a coming-of-age tale set in the legendary 90s indie NYC Mac repair shop TekServe—a voyage back in time to when the internet was new, when New York City was gritty, and when Apple made off-beat computers for weirdos. Our guide is Claire, a 19-year-old who barely speaks to her bohemian co-workers, but knows when it’s time to snap

But Hannah-Jones’s Project, whether she realizes it or not, sits on pseudo-intellectual clouds; its raison d’être, which is to render a substantial moral judgment on American history, is therefore hopelessly compromised.

This is an outlandish notion only if you don’t know how a person can destroy you by the simple act of disappearing.