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..., debt is plotted in two dimensions: balance over time. “Every debt comes with a date on which payment is due,” Atwood writes: “Otherwise the creditor would never be able to collect, and would there- Common Knowledge 17:2 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-­1188040 © 2011 by Duke...

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