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Ben Fountain

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less anc

Ben Fountain

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Ben Fountain is saying that growing up in the American South during the 1960s and '70s meant experiencing a time when technology had not yet dominated everyday life. He emphasizes that nature was still the main environment people lived in, and machines like TV, telephones, and cars were still seen as tools rather than controlling forces.

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