I love it too, and have ended up using that passage in a blog post about digital natives a while ago -- it's actually weird how accurately it describes the emerging online culture.
It's also the passage that I read at my father's memorial service; he was a settler coming to New York from the corn belt, and the city was important to him in ways that I think I (a native) still haven't fully understood, but this short passage is one of the things that put me on the road to understanding a little better.
fredwilson
· 1 month ago
That's awesome that you read this at your father's memorial service
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It's also the passage that I read at my father's memorial service; he was a settler coming to New York from the corn belt, and the city was important to him in ways that I think I (a native) still haven't fully understood, but this short passage is one of the things that put me on the road to understanding a little better.