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                                        April 29, 2007

   "So instead of lamenting the end of unmediated
   experience, I will _celebrate_ it, revel in the
   simultaneous living of an experience and its dozen or
   so echoes in art and media, the echoes making the
   experience not cheaper but _richer_, aha! being that
   much more layers, the depth luxurious, not
   soul-sucking or numbing but edifying, ramifying.  So
   there is first the experience, the friend and the
   threatened suicide, then there are the echoes from
   these things having been done before, then the
   awareness of echoes, the anger at the presence of
   echoes, then the acceptance, embracing of presence of
   echoes -- as enrichment -- and above all the
   recognition of the value of the friend threatening
   suicide and having stomach pumped, as both life
   experience and also as fodder for experimental short
   story or passage in novel, not to mention more reason
   to feel experientially superior to others one's age,
   especially those who have not seen what I have seen,
   all the things I have seen."

                   Dave Eggers,
                   "A Heartbreaking Work of
                   Staggering Genius"           STAGGERING
                   p.270


                      The need to deal with the
                      mediated is quite old.

                      "Bernice Bobs Her Hair".


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