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A class at Valparaiso University examining the way technology shapes our reading and writing practices. We like to talk about whether or not we're cyborgs, too.

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#hypertext lives! https://t.co/Qs58Rcev7C

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7. We need some writers to remain unplugged, to be our preservationists. But who will be capable of reading if we’ve all gone digital?

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1. Let’s talk about why writers should or shouldn’t resist new technologies as writers. Take a stand in praise of print culture or digital culture.

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6. You can’t really protect print culture from digital once you’ve “gone” digital. But print culture deserves protecting on its own terms for its own sake.

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And thus ends this very brief live tweeting of section 5 from Jennifer Egan's "Black Box."

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“We cannot promise that your lives will be exactly the same when you go back to them.”

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“You will each perform this service only once, after which you will return to your lives.

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“The instincts and intuition of experts, and the blank records and true freshness of ingénues.

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“An abiding love for your country and a willingness to consort with individuals who are working actively to destroy it;

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“We ask of you an impossible combination of traits: ironclad scruples and a willingness to violate them;

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“A few of you will save lives and even change the course of history.

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“Some of you will not survive, but those who do will be heroes.

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“You will be in constant danger.

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“You will be infiltrating the lives of criminals.

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At such moments, it may be useful to explicitly recall your training:

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A hundred feet of blue­-black Mediterranean will allow you ample time
to deliver a strong self-­lecture.