Laurelyn’s Reviews > The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains > Status Update

Ah, I should have figured if we were talking short-term vs. long-term memory my old buddy H.M. would come up, and here he is. Sweet old guy.

Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus suggested the keeping of commonplace books in his 1512 De Copia.

"It was a warm summer morning in Concord, Massachusetts. The year was 1844. An aspiring novelist named Nathaniel Hawthorne was sitting in a small clearing in the woods, a particularly peaceful spot known around town as Sleepy Hollow."

"At least one major publisher, Simon & Schuster, has already begun publishing e-novels [refined, ladylike puke] that have videos embedded in their virtual pages [hearty frat-party puke]. The hybrids are known as 'vooks.'" [colossal, Nero-stopping- in-at-the-vomitorium puke] Sweet Baby Jesus, I thank you for your manifold mercies that I have never heard of that particular disgusting trend. UGH.