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...media-saturated age, in which a text is always polluted by the author's real life, Pynchon, 64, lets his work stand alone. He has done no interviews and allowed no current pictures. Almost nothing is known about his life after his graduation from Cornell...
...principal author of popular college text The Molecular Biology of the Cell...
...sounds like the perfect pet trick for curious technophobes; a way into the Internet without pressing a key. Using a wireless link to your PC, AIBO downloads your new mail as it comes in and uses his hard drive and a special Sony memory stick to convert the text to voice. He even recognizes certain words and does the appropriate action -waving his paw when someone writes (and he speaks) hello. That rustling noise you will no doubt hear when Messenger launches will be the sound of several million kids putting him on their Christmas list. AIBO's web-browsing...
...cannot separate his writings from his art. He was probably the first major European artist of whom this was true. Illuminated manuscripts had been done for hundreds of years before his birth, but usually the script was by one person and the decoration by another, while the actual text had originally been composed by a third...
...they are, "illuminated" in a form of color etching that was essentially his invention, possess an astonishing integration of clarity, density and richness of organic detail. They ennoble the very idea of illustration and erase the boundaries that supposedly distinguish it from "art." You cannot imagine separating the text from the design, or the design from the text, and so there has hardly been an English book creator since--not even William Morris, the greatest one to emerge since Blake--who did not feel the duty of homage...