Thursday, December 21, 2000
Have you ever had the problem of being unable to lose context? What I mean is, you get fixed in a way of interpreting things, and then when switching to a different source, you can't snap out of it? It happens to me all the time. I'll read, for example, the Onion (America's Finest News Source). Then I'll go and read something like something serious, but I'm always looking for the joke in all the stories of child torture. Or you'll read some dry piece of scholarship for an hour or two, and then speak in stilted English all day. It's unnerving.