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2026 08 16

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A pixelated photo of a page of a book with all text blurred out except two segments reading “Virtue Hoarders” and “In the eternal words of my late Latin teacher at the City of University of New York, “Disco Inferno“ or “I learn in Hell.“”
A pixelated photo of a page of a book with all text blurred out except two segments reading “Virtue Hoarders” and “In the eternal words of my late Latin teacher at the City of University of New York, “Disco Inferno“ or “I learn in Hell.“”

A pixelated photo of a page of a book with all text blurred out except two segments reading “Virtue Hoarders” and “In the eternal words of my late Latin teacher at the City of University of New York, “Disco Inferno“ or “I learn in Hell.“

2026 05 06

2026 05 04

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The image shows a page from a book, held open by a hand visible at the bottom. The photo is somewhat grainy and slightly out of focus, with parts of the text obscured by what looks like light-colored highlighting or smudges. The visible text appears to be from a book about gambling — specifically slot machine play. It includes an interview with a woman (her name partially obscured) who describes her relationship to the machines. Readable passages include her saying she’s “not playing to win,” but rather “to keep playing—to stay in that machine zone where nothing else matters.” She describes the machine zone as “like being in the eye of a storm… your vision is clear on the machine in front of you but the whole world is spinning around you… you’re with the machine and that’s all you’re with.” In the upper-right corner there’s a black-and-white photograph labeled “Figure 1.1” showing what looks like a dense crowd or rows of slot machines. Based on the content and the “machine zone” language, this looks like a page from Natasha Dow Schüll’s Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
The image shows a page from a book, held open by a hand visible at the bottom. The photo is somewhat grainy and slightly out of focus, with parts of the text obscured by what looks like light-colored highlighting or smudges. The visible text appears to be from a book about gambling — specifically slot machine play. It includes an interview with a woman (her name partially obscured) who describes her relationship to the machines. Readable passages include her saying she’s “not playing to win,” but rather “to keep playing—to stay in that machine zone where nothing else matters.” She describes the machine zone as “like being in the eye of a storm… your vision is clear on the machine in front of you but the whole world is spinning around you… you’re with the machine and that’s all you’re with.” In the upper-right corner there’s a black-and-white photograph labeled “Figure 1.1” showing what looks like a dense crowd or rows of slot machines. Based on the content and the “machine zone” language, this looks like a page from Natasha Dow Schüll’s Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​