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“The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)