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Esther often daydreams about the many possibilities in her future, from becoming bilingual to apprenticing a pottery maker to having a lover while in Europe. The author details Esther's fantasies in a metaphor, which compares them with telephone poles with wires that "dangled into space" as far as she could see, but she couldn't see very far at all. - Josh

High tension towers reach toward the horizon, carrying electricity from power plants to homes. The low winter sun has already set, providing this 'blue hour' view on the Illinois prairie.

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above ground utilities give me a headache. ugliest thing on this planet.

Eula Biss begins with the telephone. In a series of facts and headlines she offers a brief history of Alexander Bell’s famous invention and the so-called “War on Telephones Poles” that ensued in America in its wake. But “Time and Distance Overcome” is not an essay about property rights. It is not an essay on telephone poles as symbols of urban blight, or the miracle of invention, because “Even now it is an impossible idea that we are all connected, all of us.” Instead, it is an essay on the…