Word: readerly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...about creating my own virus, the first created by someone who is not the manufacturer of antivirus software. By ?creating,? I mean writing about it and hoping a reader makes it for me. The Stein Virus Variant A will find Web users over 60 and e-mail them my column every week. Stein Virus Variant B will infiltrate the AOL home page and jam it with a big story about what Erik Estrada is up to now. You can imagine how disheartened I was to discover that that?s exactly what is already on the AOL home page...
...address. But that ends up junking a lot of useful stuff--such as the discussions on my journalism-school alumni e-mail list. AOL can turn away mail from anyone not flagged as a friend, but part of my job is to accept correspondence from strangers--like you, dear reader...
...problems with men, or at least she thought she had. (Same difference.)" About film footage of Jackie Kennedy: "She looks so young, Wallingford thought. (She was young--it was 1961!)." Irving has always been a generous author, but here his constant fussing to make sure that the reader is comfortable and picking up every single nuance grows wearisome. Hush, please, we're trying to read...
...what do I do with all these failed CDs? A colleague here told me her father hangs his in the garden to scare away birds and deer. Any other ideas? The reader with the most inventive use for a useless CD wins a box of coasters...
...ultimate fate of the cosmos too gloomy to contemplate, even at a few trillion years' remove? A lot of you got downright doleful at the faraway prospect. "Thank you for making me feel very, very small," griped a reader from Los Angeles. Even more despondent was a Californian from Castro Valley, who called our story "the most depressing thing I have ever read. It seems we are doomed no matter what we do. Pass the Prozac." A Houstonian was "extremely distraught to think of the universe as an infinitely large, charred nothing." But in Cincinnati, Ohio...