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jcastro on Sept 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)

That's how I started figuring out it wasn't a recent article. I ran into this link from the G+ HN circle and didn't see a mention of the date.

Then about 1/3 of the way through I started thinking "what the hell, no article can be this long", then I looked at the date.

A great read though, it does a lot to remind us how articles used to be back in the day before our current attention spans.

sp332 on Sept 18, 2012 | [–]

Atlantic articles that get upvoted on hn are generally pretty long.

mng2 on Sept 18, 2012 | [–]

It's more a function of the magazine the article runs in. Mags like the Atlantic and the New Yorker still run plenty of long-form journalism.

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