Eula Biss Time And Distance Overcome Summary

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In the opening essay “Time and Distance Overcome” of her book Notes from No Man’s Land, Eula Biss beautifully describes the invention of the telephone in the first part of the essay; in the second part, she makes a shocking turn to the terror of lynching as another American invention. Her argument turns on the idea that telephone poles started to appear at the same time as white Americans began lynching black Americans. She provides an intimidating number of examples in order to guide the readers into the connection between two American creations, and how white Americans accepted both of them. She implicitly equates two famous American inventions - the telephone and racial lynching. Biss passively asserts how telephone poles, which
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Eula Biss is the author of the article “Time and Distance Overcome”, and her grandfather was a lineman and “broke his back when a telephone pole fell”(Biss 541). He asked to smash him onto the road before he died. Have anyone think about the stories behind a telephone pole when we see a thin and high pole? “Nothing is innocent,” Biss said, because even a common pole might be full of heavy stories about history, politic, and humanity (542). In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell first time demonstrated the…

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