The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.

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Stacey D'Erasmo was American novelist. Stacey D'Erasmo is an American author and literary critic. Read more on Wikipedia →

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

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