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...Text by Andrea Dorfman...
...disagreements arose in the late rounds of negotiation that weakened the final text of the treaty. The agreement now states that the North must give the South money and technology to preserve biodiversity and that communities and indigenous peoples should have a financial stake in conserving their native plants and animals. However, the treaty sets out no formula or mechanism for payments for the use of genetic materials...
Voyager's software displays the text on clean white pages that replicate the design of the hardback rather than using the scrolling strings of text so familiar to computer users. A touch of a button turns the page or allows the reader to flip back and forth. Users can dog-ear the corner of a page to mark their place, or attach an electronic paper clip for easy reference. Passages can be underscored or marked on the side, and there are generous margins for putting down notes...
...HOPE my inference is clear. The As go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The Bs go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get As too, but as Mr. Carswell observed, this takes too long...
...Well yes, it's what critics call inter-textuality, isn't it? using allusion deliberately to some other text or body of texts. In this one, I think it's more subdued than in the others. In some ways I rather regret not exploiting it more. Basically I saw it generically as a tragicomedy, in the sense in which one applies that term to Shakespeare's later plays, among which I was thinking particularly of The tempest. I saw it as a sort of island story, like The Tempest...