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The Reader in Exile

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presumably about the challenge of reading in an electronic age. he talks briefly about TV, Nicholas Negroponte's Being Digital (which he seems to feel negatively about), and Sven Birkerts' The Gutenberg Elegies

Franzen, J. (2003). The Reader in Exile. In Franzen, J. How to Be Alone. Picador, pp. 164-178

strongly reminiscent or suggestive of

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redolent with depression

—p.174 by Jonathan Franzen
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redolent with depression

—p.174 by Jonathan Franzen
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an ancient religious movement that has to do with duality? "an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness"

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a Manichaeism of utility

—p.175 by Jonathan Franzen
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a Manichaeism of utility

—p.175 by Jonathan Franzen
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the clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe

the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax

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electronic apotheosis

—p.178 by Jonathan Franzen
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electronic apotheosis

—p.178 by Jonathan Franzen
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