“On the fly, from my phone, with consequent autocorrect errors and the scent of machine animism”
“When I started asking questions about when they stopped swimming in North Ponds and when all these Big Box stores appeared in the fallow farmland and swamps with the preface I haven't been here in 40 years they would go silent for a moment and say “That's a long time" and I realized they weren't being recalcitrant but thinking of their own mortality”
