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That he only partly succeeded is one of the many charms of Wild Fruits (Norton; 409 pages; $29.95), which finally sees print thanks to the heroic editing efforts of Thoreau scholar Bradley Dean. Thoreau left the Wild Fruits manuscript neatly stacked and wrapped at the time of his death, but much jumbling and shuffling occurred as the papers passed from owner to owner. That confusion, plus Thoreau's notoriously hen-scratched handwriting, kept Wild Fruits a closed book until now. Readers will find that its preserved contents have aged...
...like everything else digital, even that consideration is changing--you may not have to buy that box at all. The move to distribute software online is just breaking out. Among our recommended products, Norton 2000 can already be bought as a download. Still more of a paradigm shift is Encyclopaedia Britannica's recent move to give its contents away on its website. If others follow suit, a brave new world is here indeed...
Clark went on to found Silicon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon, creating three multibillion-dollar companies. (So far.) I learned about Veblen--and loads about Clark--in Michael Lewis' new book, The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story (Norton; $25.95). It's a superb book and explains how engineers are the greatest creators of wealth in history and why Silicon Valley is the center of the universe (and how Clark came to be the center of the Valley). I tend to dislike most nonfiction, since so many writers approach their work as if they were doing the reader a favor...
...sense, then, yuppie angst is the dysfunction that dares not speak its name. Edward Norton's character in Fight Club is so ashamed of the fact that he is bored with the Gap(tm)-bland banality of his successful life he is forced to pretend that his affliction is something completely different. Hence his addiction to group therapy sessions, where he can pretend that his unhappiness springs from testicular cancer or OCD rather than from the cookie-cutter pointlessness of his life. Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) in American Beauty faces the same dilemma: she's wealthy, she has a nice...
...your face like a computer at midnight on New Year's Day 2000. Aggression seems truly to be the key to defusing the ticking time-bomb of yuppie angst. This is obvious in Fight Club: the entire movie is centered around the premise that yuppie poster boy Edward Norton finds escape from his micromanaged world only when he is pounding someone else to a pulp with his bare hands. Everything is frenetic, violent, and rough-cut in retaliation against the stuffy conformity of yuppie existence: in this angst-ridden world, movies have violent spurts of hardcore pornography, people commit random...