Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking its passage for some reason.

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Jeffrey Eugenides was a contemporary American novelist and short story writer. Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it

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