Friday, September 23, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Yiyun Li Gives Up Web to Become Better Bookworm
To quote:
"There were the Facebook friends who beckoned me with their updates; there was the Twittering that had functioned as the soundtrack of my days; there were various websites, relevant or not so much, which somehow I had led myself to believe to be essential for my daily maintenance. Above all there was the habit of opening a website mindlessly, looking for something that was not there and, unfulfilled, looking elsewhere, one page after another.
"The five or seven minutes that had been spent reading some publishing gossip or an acquaintance's acquaintance re-Twittering a joke turned out to be just the right time for a chapter of "War and Peace" or an intense battle in "Iliad."
"There were the Facebook friends who beckoned me with their updates; there was the Twittering that had functioned as the soundtrack of my days; there were various websites, relevant or not so much, which somehow I had led myself to believe to be essential for my daily maintenance. Above all there was the habit of opening a website mindlessly, looking for something that was not there and, unfulfilled, looking elsewhere, one page after another.
"The five or seven minutes that had been spent reading some publishing gossip or an acquaintance's acquaintance re-Twittering a joke turned out to be just the right time for a chapter of "War and Peace" or an intense battle in "Iliad."
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