The Referendum
The Referendum
Section titled “The Referendum”
Metadata
Section titled “Metadata”- Author: opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
- Full Title: The Referendum
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- URL: https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/the-referendum/
Highlights
Section titled “Highlights”- Life is, in effect, a non-repeatable experiment with no control. In his novel about marriage, “Light Years,” James Salter writes: “For whatever we do, even whatever we do not do prevents us from doing its opposite. Acts demolish their alternatives, that is the paradox.” Watching our peers’ lives is the closest we can come to a glimpse of the parallel universes in which we didn’t ruin that relationship years ago, or got that job we applied for, or got on that plane after all.
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