Seeking Slowness

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Jaclyn February 29, 2024
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By Benjamin Jackson
In 1996, time became frenetic, out-of-control, frightening. The world was balancing on a fulcrum between old and new—notepads giving way to networks, mail to modems, pensions to privatization. In Eastern Europe, the Iron Curtain had recently followed the Berlin Wall in its relegation to the past, and the nations which used to hide behind it were trying to find their new identities in a world which had largely passed it by. And in Boston, as young Naval Reservist and bookstore clerk, I watched my twenty-first birthday loom on a rapidly approaching horizon, just behind it th...

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