The world was different before the war," he said. "We didn'… - Ben Aaronovitch

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The world was different before the war," he said. "We didn't have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place—we still dreamed of secret caves in the Mountains of the Moon, and tiger hunting in the Punjab.

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Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born February 1964) is an English author and screenwriter.

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