Telephone pole

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an empty field with power lines and telephone poles in the foreground, against a blue sky

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

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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…

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