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When Pokémon Black and White were released, they featured over 150 new “pocket monsters,” marking the first installment since the game’s inception to introduce so many. The response from the general public, from the Pokémon fans of yore, was typical: “An electric zebra? A garbage-bag monster? A candle that evolves into a chandelier?” These Pokémon, [...]

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We waste too much chasing posterity. Presidential libraries, memorial plaques on park benches, bricks stamped with names—everywhere we are trying to leave legacies. Some just want to be remembered fondly, but for others the phenomenon has nearly no limit to scope or ambition. Somewhere right now there are a thousand different poets working on their [...]

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