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I remember the frisson of excitement I’d felt at her approach, at having been singled out, and the justification that swiftly followed. I told myself that it would be an adventure: something I could write about as I embarked on a career in journalism.

I had spent the years before in a generalised torpor. At home, this had been understood and made legible as a depression

Their eyes had become so accustomed to gazing at the sea through the coruscation of air and water that they picked up small boats that were, for some reason, too small for radar

These security measures provide spaces in which states intentionally exercise a ‘variegated sovereignty’ in which there is little or no corporate tax, little or no income tax for noncitizens, no customs or tariffs, and very little regulation.

States can also choose to create enclaves where laws and regulations are held in abeyance, ostensibly to spur commerce.