След обяд имахме практически упражнения, предназначени да ни запознаят с компютърни програми като PowerPoint, Excel и Access. За този курс седяхме в полукръг около благ инструктор с вид на библиотекар; Уейнрайт тутакси нарече мероприятието Време със семейството на Майкрософт.

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... and time is the stuff of which a self is made.

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We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so, we turn, among other things, to stories.

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In the history of the evolution of the family, you and the millions of other migrants like you represent an ongoing proliferation of the nuclear. It is an explosive transformation, the supportive, stifling, stabilizing bonds of extended relationships weakening and giving way, leaving in their wake insecurity, anxiety, productivity, and potential.

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There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

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Is getting filthy rich still your goal above all goals, your be-all and end-all, the mist-shrouded high-altitude spawning pond to your inner salmon?

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He whispers a benediction and breathes it into the air, spreading his hope for you with a contraction of the lungs.

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But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.

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From the perspective of the world's national security apparatuses you exist in several locations. You appear on property and income-tax registries, on passport and ID card databases. You show up on passenger manifests and telephone logs . . . You are fingertip swirls, facial ratios, dental records, voice patterns, spending trails, e-mail threads.

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I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

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