[AMTv1] Foretelling the future
Dec. 5th, 2010 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHi,
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
Re: news event
Date: 2010-12-06 02:14 pm (UTC)No, that's important stuff. This is the Morris affair -- about a woman who was forcibly ejected from the White House. I was most reminded of the "Don't Tase Me Bro!" affair from a couple years ago. So it's on that level.
later
Tom