In Defense … of the Ellipsis
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In Defense … of the Ellipsis
That is what these characters consistently struggle with: they don’t want to make themselves legible, or they desperately want to but can’t.
Sally Rooney: “We’re trapped in a cultural moment”
I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up on the idea that the experience of literature offers a kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere; that there is profundity in the verbal encounter itself, never mind what further profundities
... See moreSven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
At any and every moment, our actions, our emotional disposition, our thoughts, our will all combine into what another person might experience as our presence. At earlier stages of history, before the advent of the sense-extending technologies, human interactions were necessarily carried out face to face, presence to presence. Before the telephone a
... See moreSven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
in writing, I feel a strange euphoria… there are so many ways to say nothing.