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Worse yet, real life.(Fiction chronicle)(Book Review)
In the metaphysics of early computing, after the vacuum tubes, while the world was searching for the mouse, there came briefly to light an interesting cosmological problem. Graphical space can be described in two ways, either as a mapped set of distinct dots or as a collection of lines: bitmaps or vectors respectively. The basic metaphor upon which we would compute was at stake. We needed to construct an on-screen representation of depth and organization. Build a system of metaphors that created the illusion of space on a computer screen out of vectors, and get a certain kind of computing; do it out of pixels, and get another. It is a foundational presupposition, choose ...
- It Takes a Village, or Three: Updike Goes Home Again--Again.(Arts&Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) October 25, 2004 700+ words
...pages, a life-and-times of Owen Mackenzie, an amiable solipsist...unlike Shillington, where Mr. Updike was born, to Haskells Crossing...novelist, the rough outline of Owen's life story matches Mr. Updike's. Owen progresses from village to...
- Updike settles on familiar territory with `Villages'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Landy, Heather October 21, 2004 700+ words
...is through his flashbacks that Updike, who like Owen was born in eastern Pennsylvania...tryst, we are to infer that even Owen eventually tired of it all. In classic Updike fashion, women are central to Owen's life, but their roles in the...
- High infidelity; Updike fleshes out suburban adultery.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Herbert, Rosemary October 24, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Rosemary Herbert Owen Mackenzie is an adulterer...wear a scarlet letter? In John Updike's new novel of adultery in...sport us while we may." If Updike never uses that line from Andrew...adulterers and adulteresses in Updike's realm remain faithful to...
- Too tired to; New fiction: John Updike.(John Updike's new novel is far from his...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 12, 2005 700+ words
...accelerating infidelities of Owen Mackenzie. An electrical engineer, Owen designs software, starting...the earliest computers. Mr Updike's technical digressions as...laptops are more fascinating than Owen's peccadilloes--though...
- John Updike: Villages.(English Books)
- Magazine article from: Swiss News April 1, 2006 700+ words
Owen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is...
- John Updike and the waning of mainline Protestantism.(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature Webb, Stephen H. June 22, 2008 700+ words
John Updike is known more for the perfection of his...narrative actions. This backhanded praise of Updike's literary achievement is heard so often...most tapered slices of perception. In Updike's verbal economy, a maximally exuberant...
- UPDIKE: A SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Mark Feeney, Globe Staff March 5, 1989 700+ words
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS Memoirs By John Updike. Knopf. 257 pp. $18.95. Even more than most writers, John Updike has mined his facts for his fiction...autobiography. Perhaps to cushion the shock, Updike has produced no ordinary memoir but rather...
- Updike's 'Tristan and Iseult.' (John Updike)
- Magazine article from: The Explicator Mitsch, Ruthmarie H. June 22, 1996 700+ words
The title of John Updike's short story "Tristan and Iseult" may puzzle both medievalists who are unfamiliar with Updike and readers of Updike not well versed in the Tristan myth. For unlike his recent...
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