From the always cereberal, sometimes hay-feverish LQ contributor Colin Dickey, George Beard’s chart of American Nervousness from 1881.
How are you feeling today?
How the Digital Age might alter attention spans and perhaps even how we tell one another stories is a subject of considerable angst. The history of writing, however, gives us every reason to be confident that new forms of literary excellence will emerge, every bit as rigorous, pleasurable and enduring as the vaunted forms of yesteryear. Perhaps the discipline of tapping 140 characters on Twitter will one day give rise to a form as admirable and elegant as haiku was in its day. Perhaps the interactive features of graphic display and video interpolation, hyperlinks and the simultaneous display of multiple panels made possible by the World Wide Web will prompt new and compelling ways of telling one another the stories our species seems biologically programmed to tell. Perhaps all this will add to the rich storehouse of an evolving literature whose contours we have only begun to glimpse, much less to imagine.
#girls
#girls
#girls
-Lena Dunham
-Lena Dunham
#girls
-Lena Dunham
-Lena Dunham
Take Arya and Tywin. Jesus, I would watch Arya and Tywin talk for an entire episode. I would love a bottle episode that was nothing but Tywin and Arya getting locked in a storeroom in Harrenhal and discussing Westeros history.
JP
“A passing grade? You mean like a C? Well why don’t I just go get pregnant at a bus station? That was going to be an A+ yam!”
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“I’m inclined to agree with the man in uniform”
-Community
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate. Perhaps Generation Facebook have built their virtual mansions in good faith, in order to house the People 2.0 they genuinely are, and if I feel uncomfortable within them it is because I am stuck at Person 1.0. Then again, the more time I spend with the tail end of Generation Facebook (in the shape of my students) the more convinced I become that some of the software currently shaping their generation is unworthy of them. They are more interesting than it is. They deserve better.
