Spirit of the times, brother. Spirits die first. Their situation called for something nice and loud. Something mundane, that would restore them to the default position of human banality, circa 1999. Celine Dion singing the theme from Titanic .
Sterling is an author and essayist of complex, often unpredictable convictions.
He's a big advocate of regional culture, but also a globalist. It all gets complex. Yeah, that gizmo is totally not of this century. Starlitz stared in silent hunger at the satellite telephone. The device stank of futurity.