[UA] Telemancy

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 09:33 AM 05/31/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>There's also a passage in David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" dealing
>with this very topic. After the invention of the videophone, people began to
>be very uncomfortable talking on the phone because they _had_ to start
>paying attention. So, elaborate masks were invented so that people could
>pretend to be interested in what you had to say again. There's much more
>detail than that, and it touches upon several other theories of the how's
>and whys, as well.

Yeah, that's what put me in mind of it too.  Despite that, (and the
admittedly cool "Wheelchair Assassins") I must strongly warn AGAINST
reading IJ.  Just don't freakin' do it.  You have better things to do with
two weeks.

-G.
Does Tequila count as a vegetable?

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