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Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
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Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.
Jill Lepore
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Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.
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Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
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Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.
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The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born.
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