Steve Smith wrote at 03/21/2013 10:24 AM: > I'll see your "King's Men" and raise you a"Stone Junction" > <http://books.google.com/books/about/Stone_Junction.html?id=woneSCNLbrYC> by > Jim Dodge
Ordered! > When Glen writes his "great american novel" (surely to be also an > alchemical potboiler, a digital noir happening, an outlaw epic?) all his > (published on paper or internet, indexed by Google) forgotten influences > and sources will be exposed. His Twitch will be a folding of the > origami paper, or perhaps a pull of the taffy. Unfortunately, I think the novel is dead as a format for story telling. It may return if peak oil or a zombie apocalypse obtains. But overall, I think it's efficacy is dwindling rapidly. I still like them because that's the way I was trained. But I find them increasingly difficult to read ... the surrounding people, devices, and non-fiction books with good indices draw my attention away from novels. I'll play a video game for 6 hours. But I won't read a novel for 6 hours. Even when I do manage to read for a long time, it sparks ideas that I have to write down or pause to look something up in another book. I am no longer linear ... or even first order continuous. -- =><= glen e. p. ropella The dog is dead and the sacrifice is done ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
