Tahseen al-Khateeb's interview with me, first published in Arabic, now has an English home at Jacket2.
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6 comments:
Patricia
said...
Dear Linh, I enjoyed the interview greatly - thank you. "In a hypermediated culture, the most radical act is to say no to all buffers and regain, touch by touch and one face-to-face conversation at a time, a more tactile reality, for it is, after all, your naked birthright." I'm posting that on my wall, should I forget. Love, Patricia
Great interview, I should say, but actually, I have a question. Why are you allowed to go on living? You say the most terrible things about Amerikans, but really, if we were that bad you would be dead. And I am so glad you are alive. But you make me as horny as a 15-year-old pimply Vietnamese immigrant.
Good Lord, watch what you're saying! I've been feeling half dead and can hardly write my new Centralia Postcard. Chuck is half dead, I'm half dead, you're half dead and Centralia is 99% dead.
Chuck and I were like two raving fools driving around coal country. He's filled with forebodings, personal and societal, and so am I.
Hey, aren't you supposed to write an essay on education?! Get back to work, eh.
Linh, I don't see what was wrong with paying you a high compliment. All I said was I'm glad you're alive, and you complain? Sheesh!
I already wrote that essay, on your ridiculous schedule, no less. It's called "Teaching Torture in the Homeland," but you said you didn't want to read it. I only sent it to John Taylor Gatto, but he did not choose to comment. You should get on his mailing list--what a trip that man is!
Your blog is messed up. When it asks me if I am not a robot, it does not give me a test. And that part at the bottom, "about me," no longer vibrates like it used to. You have some computer problems, boyo.
6 comments:
Dear Linh,
I enjoyed the interview greatly - thank you.
"In a hypermediated culture, the most radical act is to say no to all buffers and regain, touch by touch and one face-to-face conversation at a time, a more tactile reality, for it is, after all, your naked birthright."
I'm posting that on my wall, should I forget.
Love, Patricia
Thanks a lot, Patricia! I'm very glad you find that resonant.
Great interview, I should say, but actually, I have a question. Why are you allowed to go on living? You say the most terrible things about Amerikans, but really, if we were that bad you would be dead. And I am so glad you are alive. But you make me as horny as a 15-year-old pimply Vietnamese immigrant.
Hi Elizabeth,
Good Lord, watch what you're saying! I've been feeling half dead and can hardly write my new Centralia Postcard. Chuck is half dead, I'm half dead, you're half dead and Centralia is 99% dead.
Chuck and I were like two raving fools driving around coal country. He's filled with forebodings, personal and societal, and so am I.
Hey, aren't you supposed to write an essay on education?! Get back to work, eh.
Linh
Linh, I don't see what was wrong with paying you a high compliment. All I said was I'm glad you're alive, and you complain? Sheesh!
I already wrote that essay, on your ridiculous schedule, no less. It's called "Teaching Torture in the Homeland," but you said you didn't want to read it. I only sent it to John Taylor Gatto, but he did not choose to comment. You should get on his mailing list--what a trip that man is!
Your blog is messed up. When it asks me if I am not a robot, it does not give me a test. And that part at the bottom, "about me," no longer vibrates like it used to. You have some computer problems, boyo.
Hi Elizabeth,
I said I'd read the final, published version, not a draft. OK, I will email you a list of editors to send it to.
Linh
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