“If you’re an incredibly famous rich person who does more in one day than I do in a month, does your perception of time’s passing go slower or faster than it does for me?”

— Douglas Coupland , book JPod

JPod (2006)

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Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and grap… 1961

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