Jonathan Franzen has an article in the MIT Technology Review this month about how cell phones are denting his personal sense of urban propriety that includes the following statement:
[...] if you don’t see any difference between reading Jane Austen on a Kindle and reading her on a printed page, or if you think Grand Theft Auto IV is the greatest Gesamtkunstwerk since Wagner, I’m very happy for you, as long as you keep it to yourself.
This made me put down my Kindle, on which I was reading my downloaded copy of the MIT Technology Review. I don’t know about Gesamtkunstwerk, but kunstwerk, yes. Why don’t you keep it to yourself, Franzen? God damn!
I still think Strong Motion is totally awesome.
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he sounds disgruntled as always… and old.