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Thanks to TiVo, I no longer merely watch TV; I wrestle with it. Sure, I could turn off the TiVo's suggestions feature. But I'd feel like I was shirking my critical responsibility to embrace the medium's future. Besides programming TiVo to record my favorite shows, I also indulge in a special function that lets me rate programs with its "thumbs-up" and "thumbs-down" buttons, so that it learns to guess my tastes better...
...technology, when better reading devices that look and feel more like "real" books but can store several novels at a time are available. Two is finance. Producing a book in print form is an expensive undertaking. It seems to me that the Internet would be an ideal medium to put out literary works that are of interest to a minority of readers but not likely to draw a big audience...
...wind my way through theories about the manifold forms of heaven and earth, angels and demons, right and wrong, I'm melding the sacred and the secular. A mechanical medium seems inherently irreligious. But through it, I can latch onto - or into - some version of what the Hopi call "the holy something." Religion is interactive by nature. A message is conveyed to a believer, revealed, perhaps, by a Supreme Being, or manifest in one's surroundings, where spirits inhabit the trees, the rocks, the winds. The believer's life, fundamentally, becomes the response. This jibes rather nicely with the form...
...Compensations is otherwise hard at work on the nation's waterways. Unless we are lobstermen or whalers, we set out in boats in order to refresh ourselves in another dimension. The charm of the electric boat is that it allows us to navigate in the silence that is the medium of fish moving through water...
...tell the story of his struggling years. Using this tether Campbell dives into and returns from extended caveats on subjects like the history of the industry during the '80s "boom-years," the difference between craft and art, and the challenges of remaining an Artist in such an historically disposable medium. Thus it bounces from essay, to history, to criticism, to autobiography in a way I haven't seen comix try before...