For 10 days, whenever the tinny AOL voice announced an e-mail arrival, people found themselves clicking on first-person tales of the disaster, on testaments, meditations, deconstructions of events so incessantly televised that they began to drift away from the concrete and into a kind of mediated ether.
Same as you, I feel my endorphins flow when the light signals an e-mail's arrival (though frankly I can't remember the last time one of those e-mails actually lived up to its giddy anticipation).
The Daily Mail heralded her arrival with a headline that described her as a "Tony Crony".
On a Tuesday afternoon in May, an indiscreet rifling through Harrison's stack of mail reveals the arrival of the latest issue of the magazine "Deaf Life".
Priority mail, $8.60, guaranteed arrival in two days.
All samples were sent out by regular mail and arrived within 1 week after sending, according to the date of arrival provided by the participants.
Mr Semel, by contrast, was a Hollywood dealmaker who did not use e-mail before his arrival at Yahoo! in 2001.
They will also be able to consult a flat-screen monitor in the mail room indicating package arrival at the 24-hour concierge.
At camp, when I felt homesick, the arrival of mail from family was a reminder that I was not forgotten, that somewhere in the great world, though not here, my existence was written boldly in another's ledger.
The arrival of mail that should have reached you some days ago could throw yet another sidewinder in your direction.
