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  "textContent": "I keep returning to the idea that serendipity is one of the few good arguments left for slow, undirected reading. Algorithms feed us more of what we already like; chance encounters — a footnote, a stranger’s bookshelf, an FM station picked up on a quiet evening — do the opposite.",
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