Comments on: Turn off the internet! http://mmeperpetua.wordpress.com Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:34:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Perpetua http://mmeperpetua.wordpress.com/turn-off-the-internet/#comment-62 Perpetua Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:46:02 +0000 http://mmeperpetua.wordpress.com/turn-off-the-internet/#comment-62 I read it awhile ago, but I need to do a re-read. They both seem overly-fond of the "Man/Child on a Mission" theme, though I haven't thought about whether they're somehow writing to each other or into each other's universes. Then there's Foer's dedication in ELandIC: "For Nicole, my idea of beautiful". Wonder if that's supposed to be a joke... I read it awhile ago, but I need to do a re-read. They both seem overly-fond of the “Man/Child on a Mission” theme, though I haven’t thought about whether they’re somehow writing to each other or into each other’s universes.

Then there’s Foer’s dedication in ELandIC: “For Nicole, my idea of beautiful”. Wonder if that’s supposed to be a joke…

]]> By: thegrumpyacademic http://mmeperpetua.wordpress.com/turn-off-the-internet/#comment-61 thegrumpyacademic Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:42:50 +0000 http://mmeperpetua.wordpress.com/turn-off-the-internet/#comment-61 Let me know when you read *Man Walks Into a Room.* I read *History of Love* and liked it well enough, but Krauss' work was so much like her husband's (*Ext. Loud*)--or vice versa--thematically and stylistically, that I wondered whether they were engaging in some kind of pomo joke. Let me know when you read *Man Walks Into a Room.* I read *History of Love* and liked it well enough, but Krauss’ work was so much like her husband’s (*Ext. Loud*)–or vice versa–thematically and stylistically, that I wondered whether they were engaging in some kind of pomo joke.

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