John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Moving in New York Twenty Years After September 11th.

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🗓️ 18 May 2024

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In this week’s essay, John discusses the differences between moving around New York in 1991 and 2021; remembering 9/11 twenty years later; and more. Notebook Entries: Notebook 75, page 12. September 2021 Notebooks to Garret Notebook 75, page 13. September 2021 Can you make a typo with handwriting? What’s a typo with handwriting called? Notebook 4. 1991 We have to unplug the light to run the vacuum, so we do a lot of our vacuuming in the dark. Notebook 75. September 11, 2021 Fritz want something? References: Smythson Notebooks in Blue 9/11 ceremonies, events and coverage on 20th anniversary - CBS News Richard Drew on Photographing the “Falling Man” of 9/11 - CBS News Want to listen to Navel Gazing uninterrupted? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock ad-free listening to Navel Gazing and all your other favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/navelgazingplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Email us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Naval Gazing. I'm John Dickerson.
0:09.0	Notebook 75, page 12, September 2021.
0:14.0	Notebooks to Garrett.
0:17.0	Well, we started this episode right away, didn't we?
0:20.0	Notebook entry right away?
0:22.0	No preliminaries, no throat throat clearing no self-indulgent
0:25.2	jokes about the Greeks no rumination on the start of things just a brisk
0:30.4	plunge into the icy waters of recollection.
0:35.5	In this notebook of our present concern, yellow-covered field notes held together by blue
0:40.9	painters tape, there was, was you'll remember from the last episode a
0:45.1	to-do list. This occasioned a conversation about the to-do list and its role in
0:50.5	ordering or tousling the hair of our modern life.
0:55.0	Next in the notebook, it contains another long to-do list, but this one is specifically
1:01.5	related to the tasks of the apartment move
1:04.9	across town. The very top entry is this one. Notebooks to Garrett. Its
1:10.2	placement befits the priority that that specific task had.
1:15.2	Garrett is the name I gave to my office in the attic of our new house,
1:19.2	where I am coming to you now over the wireless.
1:22.4	I say I gave it that name. A more precise
1:24.4	description is that over time as I nested in the cell I learned how fitting that
1:30.4	name is for this place. I give you Wikipedia. A Garrett is a habitable
1:35.1	attic living space at the top of a house traditionally small with sloping
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