Outside of a small circle of friends

I doubt that there's a connection between Kitty Genovese's death and modern technological society, but somehow our reluctance to get involved seems distinctly part of the anomie of modern life. As I try to retrieve undergraduate memories I'm sure that I'm getting my reading lists mixed up and that I'm mixing metaphors, but my own personal web of readings and understandings must still have at least a bit of validity.

So let's see. There was:

and of course also: and let's not forget a classic which seems to have come into it's own only since the web gave it limited popularity,

Of course there are many, many more. I'll add some occasionally when I remember them or find them on the shelf. In the meantime, readers are invited to send in their own list. No prizes this time, but your name will be indexed somewhere in cyberspace. As per usual, mail your additions to me.


And BTW, one verse, though not the first one of Phil Ochs' song can be found in au format on the web. It's 400K and doesn't load very quickly, but it's nice to hear after many, many years. Except that, many years after this was first posted, things changed, and for a change, a bit for the better.


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