Hello! Our router packed up last week so for about 10 days I have been living sans internet at my beck and call. It really begs the question – how the hell did we ever live without it? Without being able to click off of an essay and within seconds be reading the latest headlines or finding out the favourite soap of a person you haven’t spoken to in 10 years. Without facebook telling us how our friends are feeling right now, even if they’re thousands of miles away. In some ways, I think the internet is like tv – it provides a relief, an escape into a world outside of ourselves. Without it we won’t die or go very crazy, but when it’s there, it helps. It’s extraordinary how cut off you feel without it.
Right now I’m sitting in my Dad’s office above the shop in Dartmouth. It’s good to be home, but alas, my internet problem has followed me here! This is the only place I’ve been able to get online and even now it’s been taking me a ridiculously long time to navigate between blogs to see what’s been going on. Everytime I try and read the chainfic the whole page crashes so although I’d love to see what it is and get involved, I think I’ll have to sit it out for a while longer, at least until the router at home (and other home!) is replaced. Anyhoodle, I thought something that might be quite interesting for me to mention, on the subject of the western world’s growing dependence on the internet, would be some automatic writing I did last week. I say automatic writing, but really it’s automatic typing… It was sometime last week, when I’d spent all day writing a presentation (trawling through library books instead of wikipedia, probably good for me albeit jaw-clenchingly sloooow) and once finished, having no facebook/hotmail/myspace etc to distract me back into dead-head, had no choice but to launch into dissertation work, at which point my brain went into meltdown. To my suprise, I found a mostly-nonsensical rant flowing from my fingertips right into the middle of an attempt to apply and define religion in the world of Narnia, His Dark Materials and The Lord of the Rings [incidentally, the best I came up with was 'Christianity: The Good, The Bad, and the Not Bloody There']
It is at this point, as I’m about to copy and paste said rant, I find that this computer hates my usb stick and won’t upload the stupid file. Goddamn the internet. Goddamn the usb stick. Goddamn the paradoxical irony.
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