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July 24, 2006
A novel approach to the news
As we mentioned below, Bob Cringely suggests that relying on the Internet for news creates some form of intellectual bottleneck which makes us, well, less-rounded. For the record, Bleeding Edge doesn't agree with him, but it's interesting to think about these things. Is Bob taking a narrow view of what news is? Does it extend, for instance, to what's in the magazine section, or the literary section?
It seems to us that the Internet massively expands our ability to pursue all sorts of things. Take, for instance, literature. A few weeks ago, for instance, we picked up a copy of Salley Vickers' latest novel, The Other Side of You. A week or so later, we noticed that Ramona Koval interviewed the author in the July 18 edition of ABC Radio National's wonderful series, The Book Show. We downloaded the podcast.
Then we did a Google search, and found out a little more through The Times Online interview with Vickers. An essential part of the story is Caravaggio's painting, Supper at Emmaus. There are two of them, indeed, it seems, three, by the way. (The cover illustration, incidentally, is from another Caravaggio, Death of the Virgin.
The fact that Vickers was a Jungian analyst has clearly helped colour the book. That can lead to an examination of Jung's theory of the anima and the animus. Of course, this sort of activity does leave a lot less time to be bothered with stuff like news.
Posted by cw at July 24, 2006 02:45 PM
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