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...ensure that a casket is airtight. The flight attendants' site on Insidetheweb.com has the feel of a late-night, rear-of-the-plane gabfest, on topics like whether it's O.K. to accept a $100 tip from a passenger (consensus: no) to an attendant's gripping first-person account of her first emergency landing. ("As I strapped myself into my jumpseat, I remember thinking that I was so glad that I had called my boyfriend earlier in the evening just to tell him that I love...
...have recanted his earlier suggestion that he and Tipper were the inspiration for Erich Segal's "Love Story," but a love story was exactly we got tonight: the first-person story of a wife obviously smitten with her husband, starting with their first meeting, a night out where they threw over their respective dates to hook up with each other. (Here is the difference between Al Gore and Bill Clinton: Al dumps his young lady for some other hottie and his campaign goes out of its way to spread the story, to humanize him.) Tipper's job tonight: to pledge...
...that. But first, maybe more puzzling: Why on Earth are so many people willing to let us look? To understand, you need to first look away from television. (Oh, just for a minute. You can do it.) Our culture is deep into a populist period of personal confession, the First-Person Era. There's the unflagging craze for memoirs--especially ordinary people's tales of woe, like Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Elizabeth Kim's story of orphanhood, Ten Thousand Sorrows. "I don't see any sign of them waning," says Jeff Zaleski, book-review editor of Publishers...
Another challenge is understanding how the mere darting of ions and oozing of neurochemicals can create the vivid first-person present-tense subjective experience of colors, sounds, itches and epiphanies that make up the self--the soul, if you will. There's no doubt that physiological brain activity is the cause of experience. Thoughts and feelings can be started, stopped or altered by electricity and chemicals, and they throw off signals that can be read with electrodes and other assays. I also have little doubt that we will crack the mystery of consciousness, in the sense of which brain events...
...former editor of FM, I would like to make a general stylistic suggestion for the mag: more first-person pieces. Speaking from a reader's perspective, I'd like to point out that I'm not really interested in the stories; I'm interested in the writers and every embarrassing detail of their Harvard existence. See this letter I? Learn...