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[books] How Novels Came To Terms With The Internet‘It is what the internet lures out of us – hubris, daydreams, avarice, obsessions – that makes it so potent and so volatile. TV’s power is serenely impervious; it does all the talking, and we can only listen or turn it off. But the internet is at least partly us; we write it as well as read it, perform for it as well as watch it, create it as well as consume it. Watching TV is a solitary activity that feels like a communal one, while the internet is a communal experience masquerading as solitude.’

How Novels Came To Terms With The Internet

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 at 6:19 am and is filed under Books, Internet.

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