Performative Reading, Tho***t Daughters, and the Luxury of Literacy in a Post-literate Age

Yes,the book is about mass surveillance and totalitarianism, but it's also a bookthat is a lot about language.

There's anexcellent quote where the character Faber, who is a retired Englishprofessor, tells the disenchanted fireman Guy, who is the main character,"If you're not driving 100 miles an hour at a clip where you can't think ofanything else but the danger, then you're playing a game or sitting in someroom where you can't argue with the televisor.