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...Stoneleigh, Massachusetts is virtually crime-free—people want to know about every movement at every moment.”Inman’s brand of security is as much about control as it is about safety. This sort of conflation serves as a good metaphor for the action in Amidon’s novel. Each inhabitant of Amidon’s sleepy college town is in the process of losing agency over his or her own life, and is desperate to regain it: Kathryn, the town’s musician-turned-music teacher, feels that she is slowly...
...users can post “just got to the office” or “thesising in Widener,” for example. So far, this sounds a lot like Facebook, with its status updates and news feed, and I recall that Facebook encouraged these location- and action-type posts when status updates were first launched...
...moderation, Twitter probably isn’t so bad. It’s the over-users who tweet every action and the attention-seekers posting introspection who stop me from using it (other than for HUDS menu listings). I just don’t want to turn into user Rogelio Umaña, who tweeted this gem last year: “I just found out somebody is stalking me on the Internet! :0 Should I worry? Nah! I embrace...
...problem is that everyone else does too. The pleasure of homage, especially with a genre like noir, is in the author’s personal touches. Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men” comes immediately to mind—move the action to Texas, ramp up the violence; nothing more complicated than that. But other than the aforementioned passage, and a frankness about various bodily functions, Johnson’s stylistic fingerprints are conspicuously absent from the novel.But “Nobody Move” doesn’t work...
...Megan A. Shutzer ’10, a Crimson editorial writer, is a social studies concentrator in Dudley House. She is a member of Student Labor Action Movement...