She uses the novel as a place to be flamboyant and funny, and to tell propulsive stories, but mainly as a capacious arena for thinking.
"I think we have to work more in the public arena to demonstrate to thinking Australians that we are working for everyone and to move our work more into mainstream issues like employment discrimination.
Every time I go past the new arena, I cannot help thinking that the Brooklyn Dodgers could have been playing atop the Atlantic Avenue station.
In that arena Sony and Microsoft were so busy thinking about hard-core, big-budget games that the simple idea of creating a virtual bowling alley in millions of living rooms didn't occur to them.
"In every society, people use [social media] differently but, on the whole, you can say that, whereas Facebook has become this public arena, where people are really thinking about how they look to the general public, WhatsApp has brought in smaller groups who can talk more privately".
Both critics and electronic music heads at the time liked to treat it as a punchline, thinking of its arena rock-style grandiosity and love for euphoric drops as garish, predictable, and cheesy—"the boy-band of the electronic subgenre," as one commenter on the Ars Technica open forum put it in 2001.
The euphoria, the new and the unknown, as you are bounced from main stage to some of the more experimental and forward thinking tents / arenas and even to get a peek at backstage and inside the DJ's inner sanctum.
The slogan "think sofas, think DFS" around the arena at Birmingham's NEC certainly had me thinking sofas, and not before time, what with the DFS winter sale ending in just three days.
So if you're thinking of wading into the shot girl arena, I'd make a beeline for the bride as soon as she enters the room.
