Yesterday I was reminded of how hyperlinking might happen in all kinds of places. I was at the Montague Bookmill, grading papers while jd and mhpd played alongside the river. If you’ve ever been to the Bookmill, you know that the bathroom walls (now there are two bathrooms, upgraded, but they haven’t fully lost their randomness) are covered with letters and newspaper clippings. The bathrooms always remind me of the independent journalist Mae Brussell, who used mountains of news clippings and cross-filings to develop theories and keep tabs on all kinds of government activities. She was down with the “internet” before there was an internet!
Anyway, on my way out, I just happened to catch sight of a Natalie Angier article from 1993–”Fashion’s Waif Look Makes Strong Women Weep” (If you don’t get TimesSelect, you can click here to read it). It shot me back to college, to when waifs–and their attendant “poverty chic” and “heroin chic“–were new and news.
Angier, a New York Times science writer, sets it up like this: Read the rest of this entry »
