NP: For Your Consideration

[Monte Davis]

>From *Gnomon*, by Nick Harkaway:

"You sit reading news that has nothing new in it, telling yourself that
because you hold in your hand some glossy skeuomorphic lozenge you are
technologically au fait, and that because you know where in the endless
repetition of tribal politics and fairy dust economics your world is, or
have consumed many of those books published in pale cream jackets by
university presses, you are somehow informed about what is important.

You are not. Meaning is being made in the saccades and the interstitial
spaces you ignore. When the miracles begin, you will declare that the world
has taken a great leap forward, and —wearing the amazed expression of a
pantomime clown—you will quote Proust as tomorrow’s children make jokes
that derive their humour from puns invoking senses you do not have. You
will wear your bewilderment first as modish nostalgia and then as
politically charged performance art, and finally as a proud, doomed ethical
position whose idiot gravity you cannot escape. You will go to your grave
protesting that everyone else has misunderstood. Oh, bravo. Bravo."
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