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The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.

Jonathan Franzen

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Jonathan Franzen
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: August 17
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Jonathan Earl Franzen
World
Oneself
Projecting
Seek
Akin
Becomes
Virtual
Space
Stimulation
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Spaces
Ends
Perpetual
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Onto
Endlessness
Without
Satisfaction
Imprisoning

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