You know, reading this reproduced for me the terror of 1984 in a way that nothing in the past ever has.
Your note no. 3--wow. I had never thought of that before. How crazy is that? Because as soon as you say it, I just think how totally true it is, and it adds a whole, real, immediate resonance that the book never had before. It's not just what-ifs; it's not just "maybe tomorrow, with one small tweak"; it's "hello world, welcome to your here and now."
And no. 4: yes. Both in the sense of off-screen and in the sense of the damage that can be done to a mind as opposed to a body.
.... you know what I really want? Is (1) a DVD player that will play DVDs (our current bottom-of-the-line DVD player can't read half the ones we get from Netflix, and we end up huddled around the ninja girl's laptop, watching the DVDs). And (2) you for company when I watch them.
Your no. 6 made me laugh because I couldn't help imagining a product whose buyers, plural, were all you.
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Your note no. 3--wow. I had never thought of that before. How crazy is that? Because as soon as you say it, I just think how totally true it is, and it adds a whole, real, immediate resonance that the book never had before. It's not just what-ifs; it's not just "maybe tomorrow, with one small tweak"; it's "hello world, welcome to your here and now."
And no. 4: yes. Both in the sense of off-screen and in the sense of the damage that can be done to a mind as opposed to a body.
.... you know what I really want? Is (1) a DVD player that will play DVDs (our current bottom-of-the-line DVD player can't read half the ones we get from Netflix, and we end up huddled around the ninja girl's laptop, watching the DVDs). And (2) you for company when I watch them.
Your no. 6 made me laugh because I couldn't help imagining a product whose buyers, plural, were all you.