Sunday, July 10, 2011

Flash Update


This just in from our English correspondent in the United States, reporting on the frenzied life of Americans tethered to Twitter and cellphone.  He describes the diners in a hotel dining-room:

They would frequently start up and dart from the room at a summons from the telephone. … I could not help feeling a breath of home … when I first sat down in a Canadian hostelry, and read the announcement that no such telephonic or other summonses were allowed in the dining-room.

Oh wait, no -- let me check the date.  Actually not Twitter.  This is Chesterton reporting from his American tour in … 1921.

As our observer states  on the next page:

The best of all news  is that nothing is really new.
 -- G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America

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