How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Enid raised her voice to aid his comprehensions. "I mean, is it AUTHENTICALLY SCANDINAVIAN?"
"Well, yes, of course." Mr. Söderblad said. "At the same time, everything in the world is more and more American, don't you think?" (4.600-601)
We see this sentiment from non-American characters throughout the novel. After America ceased to be a major industrial power, it starts exporting something much more valuable—American culture.
Quote #8
She was sixty-five and she'd never seen a scene like this. She'd fashioned images all her life and she'd never appreciated their mystery. Now here it was. All this commerce in bit and bytes, these ones and zeroes streaming through servers at some Midwestern university. (4.693)
While the Internet allows us to see anything we want whenever we want to, it has a tendency to demystify the actual thing being portrayed.
Quote #9
The beauty of the Internet was that Chip could post whole-cloth fabrications without troubling to check even his spelling (5.908)
We promise we'd never do anything like this, folks. But, if we're honest, the only thing that prevents us from doing so is our own personal ethics. Keep that in mind next time you see an unfounded rumor floating around Twitter.