Thursday, June 30, 2005
Discoveries
Via Bookslut, I've just discovered Maureen McHugh, and now I want more, more, more. What did it for me is this:
"We’re not as remote as the classic Presbyterian family (my husband says that in moments of great emotion, the men in his family would shake hands) but we don’t touch each other much."
OMG, I thought, does one of my sisters have a secret life, writing as Maureen McHugh? Or maybe it's my cousin on my father's side. But besides the personal connection, the writing is amazing--even the commentary just flows.
Just yesterday I heard a presentation in which the speaker said he was going to get his 4-year-old a cell phone with a GPS that will--get this--alert him if she wanders outside a parent-specified zone. [Personally, I think the Baby Boomers have forgotten that those neat stories from the 50s by writers like Phillip K. Dick and Robert Sheckley about near-future (now past) dystopias were science fiction.] So I was already considering the implications of this kind of thing, and "Oversite" was quite timely.
"We’re not as remote as the classic Presbyterian family (my husband says that in moments of great emotion, the men in his family would shake hands) but we don’t touch each other much."
OMG, I thought, does one of my sisters have a secret life, writing as Maureen McHugh? Or maybe it's my cousin on my father's side. But besides the personal connection, the writing is amazing--even the commentary just flows.
Just yesterday I heard a presentation in which the speaker said he was going to get his 4-year-old a cell phone with a GPS that will--get this--alert him if she wanders outside a parent-specified zone. [Personally, I think the Baby Boomers have forgotten that those neat stories from the 50s by writers like Phillip K. Dick and Robert Sheckley about near-future (now past) dystopias were science fiction.] So I was already considering the implications of this kind of thing, and "Oversite" was quite timely.
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