The Ghostwriters Behind Our Emails and Text Messages
The Atlantic Modern Communication’s Big Open Secret The assumption that we are the sole authors of our texts and emails is a collective fiction—but a useful one. Updated at 1:00 p.m. ET on April 15, 2021. In the late-19th-century play Cyrano de Bergerac, the eloquent title character gets a woman to fall deeply in love with another man by ghostwriting letters, as him, to her. The details are a bit messy—Cyrano himself is also in love with the woman, the woman is his cousin, and the other ...
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