NP: For Your Consideration

[rich]

Dylan's Mr Jones was a bit more easy on the ear

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> I don’t quite know who he is addressing
> or what are the miracles
> or when they begin
> otherwise it does seem highly insulting
>
> > On Jan 15, 2018, at 4:01 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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