Chapter 26 (p. 160)
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Twenty-third Street wasn’t busy—a little early for the lunch crowd—but he kept getting trapped behind iPhone zombies, people half his age who wandered in a dream with their eyes fixed on their screens.
— Emily St. John Mandel
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Twenty-third Street wasn’t busy—a little early for the lunch crowd—but he kept getting trapped behind iPhone zombies, people half his age who wandered in a dream with their eyes fixed on their screens." in the context of "Chapter 26 (p. 160)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Emily St. John Mandel" (Quotes, Station Eleven (2014): All page numbers from the hardcover first edition, fourth printing (September 2014) published by Alfred A. Knopf
Won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award; nominated for the 2015 John W. Campbell Memorial Award. )
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About Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel (born 1979) is a Canadian novelist.
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