From the New Republic’s Speech!: “If Abraham Lincoln were brought back to life, one thing that would throw him, other than electric power and the Internet, would be that audiences disrupted his speeches by clapping after every three or four lines. As ordinary as this seems now, this kind of applause is actually a custom [...]
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Another Reason Why The 20th Century Was An Aberration
May 15, 2008 – 01:19 pm
From Douglas Adams’s 1999 essay, How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet: “Interactivity is one of those neologisms that [fuddy-duddies at the BBC] like to dangle between a pair of verbal tweezers, but the reason we suddenly need such a word is that during this century we have for the first time [...]
