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. — Stacey D’Erasmo
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Mini who’s who:
Stacey D’Erasmo : American Novelist
Born: 1961