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Solitude is one of civilisation's great luxuries, and our enslavement to the internet is making it scarce.
Drawn from what Ian McEwan said
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- Ian McEwan by English novelist, author of Atonement
Solitude is one of the great luxuries of civilisation. It has become, by our own careless volition, by our elective enslavement to the wonders of the internet - a shrinking asset.
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↗Politics and the Imagination: Reflections on George Orwell's 'Inside the Whale'web.archive.org
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