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From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: Acculturation
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:06:07 -0700

> From: "Chris Manning" <>
>
> I'm afraid I am not familiar with A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer or
> Demolition Man or Vanilla Sky. I think The Matrix was a SF film  
> (something
> about a red pill?), but I didn't see it.

I find that hard to believe, and wonder if you're
putting me on, but I'll take you at your word.

That you have not seen or read any one of these is
surprising.  That you have not seen or read ANY of
them is frankly appalling!  You are missing cultural
context that is (IMHO) essential to anyone with any
interest in the future.

The full title of the book is "The Diamond Age: Or,
a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer".  You can peek
inside and order the paperback at
http://snipurl.com/diamondage .

The movies can all be gotten from Netflix or Blockbuster.
If you don't want to pay for Netflix, sign up for the
two-week free trial at http://www.netflix.com/ , get
and watch those three movies, and cancel.  You *do*
have a DVD player, don't you?  If you don't have a
TV to watch on, hopefully your computer can play DVDs.

Live long and prosper,
Kennita

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