ESSAY / Out of the archives, into the feed
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Open Instagram or TikTok for 10 minutes and you will likely run into him: a nervous Prague insurance clerk, dead for a century now, staring out from a grainy black-and-white photo with a quote about cages and birds stamped across it. Beside him sits a brooding Russian novelist who once faced a firing squad and lived to write about it afterward.
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