Long after the internet killed off that concept, it now allows us to watch the performances.
Here the author allows us to watch him working his way through the literature, inquiring, arguing, marveling, as he wrestles a new understanding into being.
THE book allows us to watch a group of self-identified "sons" compete among themselves for the love of a distant, manipulative and highly demanding father figure.
What goes on in Lizzie Clachan and Vicki Mortimer's scrupulously detailed double set, which allows us to watch simultaneously the parallel lives in two upper-middle-class homes, is anything but comfortable for the women who inhabit it.
A bad electrical storm knocked out our Internet service a while back, and I hadn't gotten around to resetting the wireless link with our Wii terminal, which allows us to watch Netflix shows on our television.
Hodd - a story, we must presume, already only a version of itself - allows us to watch both processes as they remake a reality that, in a sense, never existed.
