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There is no better time to read DeLillo's "White Noise" and learn about "The Airborne Toxic Event".
by dpau 7y ago
There is no better time to read DeLillo's "White Noise" and learn about "The Airborne Toxic Event".
- qubex 7y agoI remember reading that while I was hospitalised (in Italy, for an entirely unrelated event) during the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attack. A very poignant memory.
- mbrock 7y agoThat book mentions a baby whose first word is “Toyota.” Probably somewhere in the world a baby’s first word will be “Corona.”
- mistersquid 7y ago> That book mentions a baby whose first word is “Toyota.” Been a while since I read _White Noise_. If my memory "serves", it's not "Toyota" and it's not a baby's first word but a meditative focalization of one of the characters on the Toyota model "Corolla".
- dpau 7y agoThe protagonist hears his daughter talking in her sleep: She uttered two clearly audible words, familiar and elusive at the same time, words that seemed to have ritual meaning, part of a verbal spell or ecstatic chant. Toyota Celica A long moment passed before I realized this was the name of an automobile. The truth only amazed me more. https://archive.org/details/whitenoise00dond/ https://archive.org/details/whitenoise00dond/
- mistersquid 7y agoNice work. Thank you.
- freepor 7y agoMy sons first multisyllabic word was “OK Google.” 15 seconds later the Google Home was unplugged and it’s still sitting on the mantel unplugged two years later.
- dpau 7y agoha! but maybe not too surprising given the origin of the word googol
- gregcoombe 7y agoFrom the article: "[White Noise]... represents better than any other literary text just how apocalyptic dread has become the inescapable ground note of everyday life."