Rachel Mennies

libraryland:

rbwvr:

“When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears. It reminds me that…

Zadie Smith’s New York Review of Books review of The Social Network, in which she says “Fiction reduces humans, too, but bad fiction does it more than good fiction, and we have the option to read good fiction.”