6 Feb
2001
6 Feb
'01
7:08 p.m.
Neil said:
Deliverance is a ripping yarn in the Boys Own tradition, what with its savage natives, hostile landscape, meek little priestess (a noble savage?) etc.
This is from East Coker (hi, Tavia!) Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling
"A Raid on the Inarticulate" wouldn't be a bad subtitle for Deliverance and several other episodes.
I saw it quoted in John Naughton's fifth-grade-ignorant- about-science-friendly "A Brief History of the Future," about computers and the Internet. I just started it, so I don't know if he cites Orac as a predecessor of the Internet.
-(Y)