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LitNotes: Ne Plus Ultra Edition
December 28, 2007
The Ultimate Portable Book: Nanotechnologists in Israel have inscribed the entire Old Testament onto the head of a pin (no word on how many angels can dance, there, too). I immediately thought gosh, will we soon be wearing our favorite books, or entire libraries, on little pieces of jewelry? As usual, I wasn't thinking ahead: the scientists working on this are researching methods that would allow a person's medical history, for example, to be stored in his or her DNA. Talk about a traveling library...
The Ultimate Put-Down: I think it is safe to say that when an author has devoted much of his oeuvre to his own and his characters' emotions that for a fellow novelist and critic to end a long, scorching review with "Sometimes it is best to keep your interior life to yourself" is harsh. Claire Berlinski isn't even pretending to have any patience with Orhan Pamuk or his new book of essays.
The Ultimate Cocktail: As far as I'm concerned, it's not one drink in particular (one needs a martini at times; at others, a margarita), but the idea of Christopher Hitchens reviewing a book on libations. Talk about coals to Newcastle! Naturally, while Hitchens is supposed to be telling us about someone else's book, he conveniently buries the lede (such a shallow grave), letting slip that soon Bloomsbury will reissue all three of Kingsley Amis's books about drinking "with an introduction by your humble servant."
Posted by Bethanne Patrick on December 28, 2007 | Comments (1)
