Sigh! One day, I too will be famous enough to have a Wikipedia article which is attacked by vandals and quickly reverted.
You know, once I had a dream about a wiki. If you edited the wiki, you changed the world, and not just the way the world is now, but the way the world was and has always been. And I was the only one with access to the revision history. . . .
No more Borges before bed!
Maybe someday you’ll also be famous enough to have advertisers from Russell’s country plunder your lecture material to sell computer peripherals…
If you edited the wiki, you changed the world, and not just the way the world is now, but the way the world was and has always been. And I was the only one with access to the revision history. . . .
….and was your name in the dream, “Winston Smith”? (It just occurred to me that I haven’t read that book since junior high school — have to see if there’s a copy in our stacks and dig it out….)
You know, I don’t think I’ve read that book since ninth grade. Although, I did pick up a copy in a Barnes-and-Borders-A-Million a few months ago, to see the introduction Thomas Pynchon had written for the somethingth anniversary edition. He pointed out a detail which I think I had noticed back in ninth grade but not said anything about (since that was before I had a repository for mumbles about books). The appendix which describes Newspeak in scholarly fashion is written in modern English and in the past tense. For Pynchon, this was a hint of optimism.