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Originally Posted by Martian
... Which has a lot to do with the cellular phone's elevation from simple tool to indicator of social status. There are people out there, so I hear, who will assert that you're nobody if you don't own an iphone. Or at least a smart phone.
In fact, I seem to recall being accused of being a luddite in the recent past.
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If you haven't already read
Ulysses, do so. You don't have to understand it on a fundamental level, you just have to read it. Enjoy it in your own way if you can.
Now, the next time you run into this situation where someone derides you for being socially or technologically backward, ask them if they've read
Ulysses. When the response is either confusion or no (which it almost invariably will), simply smirk and call them a philistine.
If you run into a situation where they say they
have read it, ask them what they love most about it. When they can't answer that or when they say they hated it, call them a philistine.
If in the rare instance they say they loved it, ask to see the ebook version on their smart device. When they can't produce it, call them a philistine.
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Oh, and about the OP. Sorry about the tech glitch. I hope they fix it. It's a bit frustrating that this sort of thing happens in this day and age. You'd think they'd have worked all possible things about by the time of launch.
/doesn't-own-a-smart-phone-...-yet...