WOULD THE LAST SUPERPOWER LEAVING PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS
Wednesday, 29 August 2001
By MAX GROSS
When the U.S. began sending astronauts into space they discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity.To overcome this problem, NASA scientists developed a pen that not only writes in zero gravity but also upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass, and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to more than 300 centigrade.This exercise took the U.S. 10 years and cost $12 billion.The Russians used pencils.
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I refined this style that you describe. It is a deliberate telegraphic style. It is there for one reason. It is there to redefine the language. It is there to redefine the language because this is to me the best possible way of expressing the violence of the base narrative, which is another way to say the violence of history, and the violence of the inner and outer lives of the three main characters. This style encompasses racist invective. Yiddish. Profane lingo from across the board from hepcat jazz musician talk to southern cracker talk to the Klan speak of the Ku Klux Klan.
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