Status Updates From Festival & Game of the Worlds

p128: I dont know how others spend their time, but neither does anybody else. It’s lost anthropological knowledge; in order to recover it, the conditions of life would have to change in ways that are currently unimaginable.

p128: I dont know how others spend their time, but neither does anybody else. It’s lost anthropological knowledge; in order to recover it, the conditions of life would have to change in ways that are currently unimaginable.

Montage was invented in order to skip through time, in order to not have to wait. But once the effect of the novelty of montage had faded, what was to be done? A montage of a montage, to speed things up even more? Or a return to a patient immobility while waiting to think up something else?

Finished the first story in this collection (Festival) and I am less than impressed. Hoping Game of the Worlds is more entertaining to me.

Finished festival.. my brain hurts. Also the word interlocutor is used a lot here as much is revealed in dialogue? Also lots of French words I had to look up

Metaphors had been left behind in a prehistory of intellectual fantasies that took no pity on the harshness and difficulty of life.

funnnny