Richard Ford
:: A Waste of Time [article]
I can't help thinking that it's a perplexed age when, for so many people, it's better to risk being wrong in the present than to wait for a chance to be right.
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I don't have e-mail. I'm not on the Internet. I don't have a cellphone or call waiting or even a beeper. And I'm not proud of it, since my fear, I guess, is that if someone can't find me using all or any of these means, they will conclude that, for technical reasons, I don't exist any more.