Comments on: Kathryn Hughes http://timworstall.com/2008/04/24/kathryn-hughes/ It is all obvious or trivial except... Thu, 24 May 2012 12:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: PJin france http://timworstall.com/2008/04/24/kathryn-hughes/comment-page-1/#comment-11445 PJin france Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:28:51 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/24/kathryn-hughes/#comment-11445 The clue is of course in the article: "a reporter from the local paper was dispatched to my grandmother's house to report on what was the first colour television in the area." All this new technology stuff was so much better when it bound the disparate existences of the Hughes family together. But now the plebs have got their grubby paws on it....... The clue is of course in the article:
“a reporter from the local paper was dispatched to my grandmother’s house to report on what was the first colour television in the area.”
All this new technology stuff was so much better when it bound the disparate existences of the Hughes family together. But now the plebs have got their grubby paws on it…….

]]> By: MikeinAppalachia http://timworstall.com/2008/04/24/kathryn-hughes/comment-page-1/#comment-11433 MikeinAppalachia Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:36:03 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/24/kathryn-hughes/#comment-11433 "...remembering and re-telling the moments when our shared..." Doesn't "embellishing" belong in there? “…remembering and re-telling the moments when our shared…”
Doesn’t “embellishing” belong in there?

]]> By: Eva http://timworstall.com/2008/04/24/kathryn-hughes/comment-page-1/#comment-11391 Eva Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:35:25 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/24/kathryn-hughes/#comment-11391 "...a crucial collective experience, one that binds quite disparate existences together." My adolescent son plays WOW while simultaneously chatting with mates from school here in London and friends in Holland and the U.S., discusses ideas, theories, cultural phenomena and politics with people as far away as Australia, and gets music from mates in Japan. Talk about disparate existences! And what could be more wonderful and miraculous? The fact is, our childrens' experience of the world is so very different from ours, that we haven't a clue what they'll remember when it's their turn to witter on drearily and reminisce about 'the good old days'. “…a crucial collective experience, one that binds quite disparate existences together.”

My adolescent son plays WOW while simultaneously chatting with mates from school here in London and friends in Holland and the U.S., discusses ideas, theories, cultural phenomena and politics with people as far away as Australia, and gets music from mates in Japan. Talk about disparate existences! And what could be more wonderful and miraculous?

The fact is, our childrens’ experience of the world is so very different from ours, that we haven’t a clue what they’ll remember when it’s their turn to witter on drearily and reminisce about ‘the good old days’.

]]>