[MD] MD and thee

[John Carl]

Elton's description of what the world looks like when everybody IS connected
to cable is what is so scary!

That and a vicious mass peer pressure to love and emote on webcam all the
time, for the benefit of society.

shivers

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:56 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

>
> Hmmm.  I'm sure it's a fascinating book, but if I wanted to be scared and
> humored at the same time, I'd connect to cable.
>
>
>
> On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:46 PM, John Carl wrote:
>
> > Fiction Marsha?  On THIS list?  Where?
> >
> > Lu just finished Ben Elton's Blind Faith, and agreed with me that its a
> > great (but scary) read.
> >
> > Like I said, it's a retelling of 1984, which isn't so much fiction as it
> is
> > social commentary and I'd say Elton's book is the same.  Only Elton,
> being
> > so much closer to the effects of the image-oriented reality-tv modern
> bent
> > of culture on our current paradigm, provides quite a twist on what sort
> of
> > hell we humans are capable of encasing ourselves within.
> >
> > How can anything but fiction be so funny, and so scary at the same time?
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Matt Kundert
> > <pirsigaffliction at hotmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Try Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.  It's something else.
> >>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Matt, I haven't been able to read fiction, except on this list, for
> >>> many years.  I've tried various genres, but had no success.  I
> >>> tell myself that non-fiction is more fantastical story-telling than
> >>> literature, but I know I missing something.  Or maybe not.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Much love,
> >>>          Marsha
> >>>
> >>>
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