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...Nonetheless, after reading some of the inevitably dry books on reading lists, Allyn makes liberal use of favorite four letter words, includes personal accounts of different people having sex in different positions, and speaks of the evolution of masturbation. Allyn is verbally pornographic at times; in his frequent allusions to D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, one gets the sense that Allyn wishes us to see him as the next Laurence, crusader in literature of the sexually explicit. He includes such passages as: "There were people fucking and thrashing all over. They'd sort of roll over...
Targeted anti-drug sweeps led to a doubling of the drug arrests in the area, shutting down many of the dealers who used to frequent the neighborhood...
...which might be tolerable if such laxity in style were not coeval with loose thinking. But for some reason--perhaps its informality, perhaps the ease with which type is edited (making drafts unnecessary)--e-mail seems to demand less refined thinking. Frequent letter writing, on the other hand, makes habit of formal writing and thinking alike...
Letters are more likely to contain great thoughts and to make great thinkers of frequent writers. Try to imagine Rousseau writing an "E-mail to D'Alembert," or Paul sending an e-mail to the Thessalonians. Or, for that matter, Burke composing an "E-mail Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris." Indeed, most of Burke's published writing is in the form of letters--one wonders how many Burkes we are losing these days...
...immigrants are giving way to two-way frequent flyers who shuttle back and forth between their old and new worlds. Who could have imagined that the Chicago Cubs and the New York Mets would play their opening game in Tokyo? Or that internationally savvy Indian men and women would so quickly settle a land of literary opportunity without borders? --Reported by Andrea Sachs/New York