Guest guest Posted October 30, 2003 Report Share Posted October 30, 2003 Extremely cool move. Bravo. On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 08:37 AM, (AT) (DOT) com wrote: >> >> When I got home that night, the puppy was in their >> back yard crying while they sat in their living room >> watching television. I sent my brave husband over to >> their house. [[[He knocked on the door, and when they >> answered, he just said, " " " " You can't have that dog >> anymore. " " " " He then proceeded through their home to the >> back yard where he got the puppy and brought it home. >> There was no argument from them at all.]]] >> > > " ...The range (to say nothing of the amount) of material that Powers likes to load into his novels can seem overwhelming, but certain recurrent themes and preoccupations structure pretty much all of the work. Chief among these is the relationship between science and art, the objective ''facts'' of existence and the subjective ways we interpret them. (Powers knows whereof he speaks: for a while he made a living writing computer code, after getting an M.A. in literature.) Like a lot of writers, he's concerned with the effects of the high-tech on everyday life, but what's interesting is that he resists the powerful temptation to condemn technology as soul-destroying -- the self-protective cliche of almost all novelists who don't write science fiction, and many who do... " --Daniel Mendelsohn, NY TIMES review of The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 30, 2003 Report Share Posted October 30, 2003 Yeah, that was like Steve McQueen cool! -- In , The Stewarts <stews9@c...> wrote: > Extremely cool move. Bravo. > > On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 08:37 AM, (AT) (DOT) > com wrote: > > >> > >> When I got home that night, the puppy was in their > >> back yard crying while they sat in their living room > >> watching television. I sent my brave husband over to > >> their house. [[[He knocked on the door, and when they > >> answered, he just said, " " " " You can't have that dog > >> anymore. " " " " He then proceeded through their home to the > >> back yard where he got the puppy and brought it home. > >> There was no argument from them at all.]]] > >> > > > > > " ...The range (to say nothing of the amount) of material that Powers likes > to load into his novels can seem overwhelming, but certain recurrent > themes and preoccupations structure pretty much all of the work. Chief > among these is the relationship between science and art, the objective > ''facts'' of existence and the subjective ways we interpret them. (Powers > knows whereof he speaks: for a while he made a living writing computer > code, after getting an M.A. in literature.) Like a lot of writers, he's > concerned with the effects of the high-tech on everyday life, but what's > interesting is that he resists the powerful temptation to condemn > technology as soul-destroying -- the self-protective cliche of almost all > novelists who don't write science fiction, and many who do... " > --Daniel Mendelsohn, NY TIMES review of The Time of Our Singing by Richard > Powers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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