As in: Composition

From Matthew Pearl's enchanting The Dante Club:

The mind of our country is moving with the speed of a telegraph, Osgood, and our great institutions are stagecoaching behind it. (16)

This passage seemed particularly relevent given the recent discussion on WPA. Plus, I think it's damn funny. It appeals to the part of me that fetishizes old technologies—cogs and levers look so much cooler than circuitboards.

Posted by briley at February 7, 2005 6:20 PM