pynchon-l-digest V2 #4773

[Dave Monroe]

This reminds me, any idea of why there are videophones
in Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm (1932)?

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140188691,00.html

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143039594,00.html

Extraneous enough that the teevee adaptations ...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066926/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112701/

... don't even much bother with such details, so ...

--- david christensen <dchristensen at kooee.com.au>
wrote:

> 
> On Wallace. Infinite Jest can be a chore. It is also
> a work of genius. It is
> of course a personal journey that one embarks upon
> when tackling this.
> A few salient points.
> 
> Hal is such a great character. Anyone who has smoked
> dope can empathise.
> 
> The love of language and all its permutations is
> evident.
> 
> Its OK to be smart, but it comes with a cost.
> 
> I think it dates very well. While little cameras
> above your PC have been
> available for years and now internet phone lines are
> available, who is
> taking this tech. up. His take on the videophone is
> surely one of the most
> astute observations of contemporary culture ever
> written, and extremely
> funny.
> 
> I read this at the right time for me. It spoke a
> language that just
> resonated. Thats all you can ask from a book.
> 
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