Robert Priest's Blog: Blogging not logging - Posts Tagged "nino-ricci"

Coming out of bar Mercurio after a pleasant meeting with the Journal of wild culture's Whitney Smith I encountered amidst the gently dropping snowflakes two strange eyes gazing out between scarf top and toque bottom. Didn't know at first who it was but a quick lift of the scarf revealed sweet guy and esteemed Canadian novelist Nino Ricci. It also revealed that he had twi fine looking audio plugs in his ears. After our greeting I asked him what he was listening to. A novel he said. An audio book. Me too I said. I listen to audio books all the time. What do you listen on he asked me. I pulled out my iPhone and showed it to him. Then we burbled about how much more literature absorbing we were able to do these days due to audio books. And how much nonfiction too. “I'm much smarter than I used to be,” I assured him. He told me he was beginning to suspect that we might be in the last days of text. That text was just an interim thing. I told him that I didn't even type much these days. because I use a voice to text device. This seemed to confirm our suspicions which were not necessarily dark. Post text? Is that possibly the age we're in?