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Love letters may be back in fashion--in a different form. The Abelards and Heloises, the Vicomtes de Valmont and the Marquises de Merteuil of today communicate via e-mail, the technology of the '90s, not via the post, known affectionately as snail mail...
...magazines could learn many things about graphic design from the inset photos and graphics and various display faces Leslie deploys; the art (last issue had cover art by Chris Knox!) is neat, too, but the meat of the magazine is interviews--with Peter Jefferies, Barbara Manning, Madder Rose, A. Snail, Crystallized Movements, S. Moxham and various lesser lights worth learning about. Other record reviews are by one or more members of Sebadoh. If I've convinced you to check out one and only one commercially available fanzine, Popwatch should probably be it. Can't find it? Unlikely...
...mail has helped me to reduce my phone bill, but will never eliminate it completely--sometimes, I crave the sound of a human voice. A computer can't duplicate the distinctive handwriting in a "snail mail" letter. Messages pile into the e-mail "mailbox" mechanically, their arrival times their primary distinguishing characteristics...
Unlike the snail darter, which only a militant ecologist could love, whales are inherently irresistible. People crowd by the millions into aquariums and theme parks to watch belugas and killer whales go through their paces. Tens of thousands risk seasickness each year to join whale-watching cruises. Songs of the Humpback Whale, a record of cetacean squeals and groans first released in 1970, sold 100,000 copies that year and has remained a fixture in New Age record bins...
...conservation, however, just as clearly as Band Professor of Science P.O. Wilson does in his recent Diversity of Life. Beginning with some real-life trouble in Tahiti, this message carries explicitly through Gould's first three essays, ending with a reflection on the loss of the limpets, a snail whose shell "looks like a Chinese hat of the old caricatures." Through Gould's superb interweaving of history and biology, the limpet becomes a poor pitiable and yet complex organism, with symbolic meaning for other endangered species...