People
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance: they make the latitudes and longitudes.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Friends far away make the world feel bigger, because they turn empty distance into a map. The latitudes and longitudes image says that people at a distance give the earth its coordinates, its sense of places worth reaching.
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