In a telephone interview last week, Mr. Kirkpatrick said he might take a cue from Al Gore, who used a documentary film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” to heighten concern about global warming. Mr. Kirkpatrick is now considering an alarm-bell documentary of his own, he said.
Its tentative title: “A World Without Story.”
As Arcadia put it when she emailed me the link, "NYT or Onion?"
Can you imagine lying awake at night haunted by fears of the end of narrative? I am going to try this tonight and see what happens, if I can stop myself from giggling.
ReplyDeleteI... I really can't.
ReplyDeleteYou have to figure that either MIT is getting some awe-inspiring funding for this gig or the article radically misrepresents the project.