Word: spooling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James Joyce did a terrible thing for a whole generation of writers when he put that tape recorder inside the skull of Leopold Bloom. James Patrick Donleavy, a Dublin-educated New York novelist, ran off a lively spool or two in a novel called The Ginger Man, a picaresque tale of low life and high philosophy in Dublin's slums. He has now reverted to tape in a second novel, this one called A Singular Man, whose hero, equipped with the Joyce instant-playback brain, goes all over the Blooming place in Manhattan...
...homes (selected by computer), all radios and television sets are monitored continuously by Audimeters-black boxes about the size and shape of a car battery. Each Audimeter comes equipped with eight weeks' worth of film, which records the family's listening and viewing activity. When a spool of film is replaced (either weekly or every other week, according to Nielsen's need for speed), the Audimeter rewards its keeper by ejecting two quarters (Nielsen also pays half the family's TV repair bill). The film is mailed to headquarters in Chicago, where its coded streaks...
...Imprisoned Self. What happens when the mood fails is sadly apparent in Clock Without Hands, a novel without direction or much visible point except as a tame foray into race relations. Novelist McCullers drops story threads and conies close to losing the entire narrative spool. A major character is suddenly reduced to a bit part. Motivations are inept and mystifying. Her people are all of a piece or all in pieces. What redeems some of these flaws is the special McCullers gift, the moment of high emotion when a lonely soul rapping on the wall of his imprisoned self hears...