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bluegargantua) wrote2010-12-05 10:08 pm
bluegargantua) wrote2010-12-05 10:08 pm
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[AMTv1] Foretelling the future
Hi,
Mark Twain is recounting a news event from 1906 that's all the rage. He's doing this in part because his first-hand telling of it is more compelling than a recounting by a historian at a later date. Near the end he says:
"If any stray copy of this book shall, by any chance, escape the paper-mill for a century or so, and then be discovered and read, I am betting that the remote reader will find that it is still news, and that it is just as interesting as any news he will find in the newspapers of his day and morning -- if newspapers shall be in existence then -- though let us hope they won't."
I don't know what he'd make of cable news, but I'd love to read his thoughts on the subject...
Tom
Mark Twain is recounting a news event from 1906 that's all the rage. He's doing this in part because his first-hand telling of it is more compelling than a recounting by a historian at a later date. Near the end he says:
"If any stray copy of this book shall, by any chance, escape the paper-mill for a century or so, and then be discovered and read, I am betting that the remote reader will find that it is still news, and that it is just as interesting as any news he will find in the newspapers of his day and morning -- if newspapers shall be in existence then -- though let us hope they won't."
I don't know what he'd make of cable news, but I'd love to read his thoughts on the subject...
Tom