My point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind o… - Emily St. John Mandel

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My point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.

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About Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel (born 1979) is a Canadian novelist.

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Alternative Names: Emily St. John Fairbanks
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It’s shocking to wake up in one world and find yourself in another by nightfall, but the situation isn’t actually all that unusual. You wake up married, then your spouse dies over the course of the day; you wake up in peacetime and by noon your country is at war; you wake up in ignorance and by the evening it’s clear that a pandemic is already here.

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