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All of these people, it was as if they were all turning to gold, all marked with an invisible X on their foreheads, as of course we are, too, the place and time yet to be determined. Yes, we are burning down; time is disintegrating.

Michael Paterniti

All of these people, it was as if they were all turning to gold, all marked with an invisible X on their foreheads, as of course we are, too, the place and time yet to be determined. Yes, we are burning down; time is disintegrating.

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About Michael Paterniti

Michael Paterniti is an American writer known for magazine articles in publications such as Harper's, the New Yorker, GQ, and Esquire, as well as his book The Telling Room (2013).
Paterniti lives in Portland, Maine and was born in Darien, Connecticut. After his graduation from the University of Michigan, Paterniti pursued a career as an editor and magazine writer.
Paterniti is the author of "Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain", his account of a cross-country car trip with the pathologist who performed Albert Einstein’s autopsy and Einstein’s brain itself. The book won the 1998 National Magazine award.