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Crossword 181: Digital Waste

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Beautiful Hand
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Beautiful Hand

Are you aware that, in the course of a lifetime, the average American adult discards enough ones and zeros to fill seven virtual football stadiums?  It’s just one more way that technology is making our world into a dystopian hellscape.  I’m thinking of doing my part to reverse this trend by etching my crosswords in stone the old-fashioned way and delivering them by ox-drawn carts.  Subscription fees may rise, of course, but won’t it  be worth it?  What can equal  the sound, the smell,  the tactile thrill, of entering your answers in granite, with a chisel?


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