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From the Spring 2015 issue "The Unknown"
Errata
Having lost faith in ourselves,
we’re turning to numbers.
The new think is data.
Add meta,
columns of nonsense
march across the screen.
If y is a function of x
and x is a misunderstanding,
then x is what went
so terribly wrong.
– Eliza Griswold
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[Photo courtesy of Anna Sofia Guerreirinho]