Waiting for Godot
I'm sure I've posted this before:
And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in face communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all
- Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee
And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in face communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all
- Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee