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Newsprint-coloured cover with a red line drawn across it under the title What Is a Deadline, and the letters FRI faint in the corner.
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What Is a Deadline

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A deadline is supposed to be a point ahead of you that approaches, arrives and passes, weighing more the nearer it gets. The foundation says there is nothing ahead of you: a deadline is a present mark that names a clock reading and a condition on the record, and the weight is not the nearness of the date but your own reading of your own unfinished act against the prediction the mark installed — which is why an extension relieves before any work is done, why a deadline you never heard of weighs nothing as it passes, and why the hopelessly late go calm. … readWhat Is a Deadline

Pale limestone cover with the title What Is Age, the word Age in italic verdigris, and a faint R5 glyph in the corner.
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What Is Age

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Age is supposed to be the time a thing has behind it, and older is supposed to mean farther back. Duration is undefined exactly where that picture stores it: an age is a count taken in the present, between two marks, against a counter you chose to trust — which is why a bronze can lose two thousand years in an afternoon and a wedding can feel nearer than last year’s job. … readWhat Is Age