On digitization
“The Internet will not bring us a universal library, much less an encyclopedic record of human experience.” (Via.)
“The Internet will not bring us a universal library, much less an encyclopedic record of human experience.” (Via.)
Rachel Aviv considers the legacy of Freud’s theories of dreams in the age of modern neuroscience.
VQR plots the contents of its new South America issue on a map of the continent. (Daniel Alarcón co-edited.)
“A big problem with the biographical evaluation of Ellison … is that he was so much smarter and a better writer than most of the people around him.”
A mid-November deadline looms, and between work and writing, I don’t have much steam left for books, email, or blogging. In fact, I’m at about 65% on the brain-deadness scale. Which translates into a whole lot of YouTube. So while my mother-in-law, Jane, recently enjoyed all 3500 pages of In Search of Lost Time, then read a new biography of . . .