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# Absence
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/absence/
- Published: 2020-12-07T23:56:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:49:33.000Z
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

Even when I put my telephone in a drawer, I am acutely and sometimes painfully aware of its absence. I catch myself patting down my pockets while feeling phantom vibrations, seeking synthetic communion. A liquid crystal shadow tints my thoughts; I never feel truly alone. 

There’s a moment in *[Neuromancer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer?ref=jamesreeves.co)* when the hero descends into a labyrinthine brothel in search of his partner. He races through corridors of steel doors that lead to sound-proof rooms for every sensual pleasure imaginable. When he finally finds his partner behind door #43, he is surprised to discover that she is alone. Being alone, she tells him, has become “the most expensive special service of all.”

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