Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Great Regulars: [Lydia Davis'] "Television," for instance,

begins with a series of riffs on why we watch the flickering screen. Each line manages to weave sociological and sensory insights:

We listen to the ads until we're exhausted, punished with lists:

they want us to buy so much, and we try, but we don't have a lot of money. Yet we can't help admiring the science of it all.

from John Freeman: The Philadelphia Inquiere: Varieties of Disturbances

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