Quote of the Day | 0728
things happen way too fast. I always bring up the example of Tolstoy writing about the War of 1812 in the 1860s. The horse was a horse and a carriage was a carriage. Tolstoy didn’t have to worry about the next killer app. The novel is a disaster at this point. It’s not a disaster that there are no good novels being written. There are wonderful novels written. It’s that our brains are being disassembled right now and being put back together in a whole different shape, and that is not going to be conducive to reading a 300-page thing that doesn’t have any links.
Gary Shteyngart, as cited in: ‘A Wry Dystopian Seer’
[x]#7653 fan woensdag 28 juli 2010 @ 09:49:46
