That’s the theme of an essay by Beau Friedlander in the LA Times, in which he concludes, “the instant knowledge provided by the Web is invaluable, as is the deeper communion provided by books.” In part: Books require a different sort of communion with one’s subject than the Internet. They foster a different sort of memory — more tactile, more participatory. I know more or less where, folio-wise, Eliot gets nasty about the Jews in his infamous 1933 lecture series After Strange Gods, but I always have to read around a bit to find the exact quote, and the time […]
