Comments on: Distraction http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/distraction/ falling indelibly into the past Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:48:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jason http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/distraction/#comment-2120 Jason Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:35:16 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=882#comment-2120 <p>Alas, my secret superpower has been revealed.  ;) </p> Alas, my secret superpower has been revealed.  ;)

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/distraction/#comment-2119 KF Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:12:52 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=882#comment-2119 <p>Wow.  Either you can time-travel, Jason, or something’s gone wonky with my date-stamp.  I’m assuming that my server’s clock is off, but if you have, in fact, magically teleported back to this morning, would you drop me an e-mail warning me that the lunchtime burritos are No Good? </p> <p> (On a serious note:  I think you’re right about the future import of this interview.  I still wonder how seriously anyone takes the author’s opinion of his own meaning, in this late age, but then I remember the legions of students arriving this week, ready to tell me I’m “reading too much into” things...) </p> Wow.  Either you can time-travel, Jason, or something’s gone wonky with my date-stamp.  I’m assuming that my server’s clock is off, but if you have, in fact, magically teleported back to this morning, would you drop me an e-mail warning me that the lunchtime burritos are No Good?

(On a serious note:  I think you’re right about the future import of this interview.  I still wonder how seriously anyone takes the author’s opinion of his own meaning, in this late age, but then I remember the legions of students arriving this week, ready to tell me I’m “reading too much into” things…)

]]> By: Jason http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/distraction/#comment-2118 Jason Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:28:36 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=882#comment-2118 <p>I saw that same interview about the same time as I read Pattern Recognition and I wondered if he could possibly be serious. </p> <p> That’s one of those quotes that scholars and students will refer to years down the road, some in an “I told you so” fashion (much the same as a student said to me when Ridley Scott “revealed” that Deckard - played by Harrison Ford in Blade Runner - really was an android ... as though that sealed the deal), and others to point out that the author never really gets the final say as to their intention (or importance thereof). </p> I saw that same interview about the same time as I read Pattern Recognition and I wondered if he could possibly be serious.

That’s one of those quotes that scholars and students will refer to years down the road, some in an “I told you so” fashion (much the same as a student said to me when Ridley Scott “revealed” that Deckard - played by Harrison Ford in Blade Runner - really was an android … as though that sealed the deal), and others to point out that the author never really gets the final say as to their intention (or importance thereof).

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