reclaimed space
Jul. 10th, 2005 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaeclecticI just started reading AHWOSG (which most of you probably read when it came out, because face it you really are cooler than me), and for some reason chanced to notice the following text on the copyright page:
"Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc, New York. Random House is owned in toto by an absolutely huge German company called Bertelsmann A.G. which owns too many things to count or track. That said, no matter how big such companies are, and how many things they own, or how much money they have or make or control, their influence over the daily lives and hearts of individuals, and thus, like 99 percent of what is done by official people in cities like Washington, or Moscow, or São Paulo or Auckland, their effect on the short, fraught lives of human beings who limp around and sleep and dream of flying through bloodstreams, who love the smell of rubber cement and think of space travel while having intercourse, is very very small, and so hardly worth worrying about."
The author goes on to provide a graphical representation of an equivalent of his Kinsey score.
[Needless to say the above-quoted text is surely copyrighted by Dave Eggers. Any typographical errors are the sole responsibility of the poster.]
"Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc, New York. Random House is owned in toto by an absolutely huge German company called Bertelsmann A.G. which owns too many things to count or track. That said, no matter how big such companies are, and how many things they own, or how much money they have or make or control, their influence over the daily lives and hearts of individuals, and thus, like 99 percent of what is done by official people in cities like Washington, or Moscow, or São Paulo or Auckland, their effect on the short, fraught lives of human beings who limp around and sleep and dream of flying through bloodstreams, who love the smell of rubber cement and think of space travel while having intercourse, is very very small, and so hardly worth worrying about."
The author goes on to provide a graphical representation of an equivalent of his Kinsey score.
[Needless to say the above-quoted text is surely copyrighted by Dave Eggers. Any typographical errors are the sole responsibility of the poster.]