Googling at a Distance?
I’ve been reading up on biographical data as of late, something I never thought I would do in order to write a dissertation chapter. Dates and numbers galore.
For now, the bio work is on Burroughs. Still, it’s all rather subjective when compared to the graphed-out quanta-time-space I came across when Googling “burroughs joan vollmer” just a few moments ago:
Sometimes it’s just too difficult NOT to jump on the Google praisewagon. I consumed a good part of my day reading biography and then compiling my own hand-written timeline of Burroughs-related events. From Word Virus, I even learned about the “high-colonic enema” called “The Cascade” and its Burroughs-coined motto, “Well done! thou true and faithful servant!” (10).
I was feeling productive. And even rewarded. A product hand-written, not typed, in ink, not ones and zeroes. Then I discover these Google timelines and the “alternative view” project.
Well, before I begin hand-writing and inking away with Virginia Woolf:
I might as well get more personal:
Slowly but surely, it seems as if scrolling the web will become a chore for the average reader. That said, this entry sure is long…
