That kind of fourth wall breaking happens multiple times in this novel and it never fails to freak me out. It's not just the creature that's more intelligent than one would assume, the entire novel is. McGuire seems to have wanted to make the reader PAINFULLY aware of their role as reader.

I'd say there's a distinction that could be made here where the space is the main character but the reader is the protagonist. This novel seems to have themes that suggest the repetition of time. Similar occurrences appear over and over throughout time and the space we examine just shows us that view. It is then up to us to connect the dots or not, to choose how to go about reading. We decide the novel's purpose, if there is any, and as such become the person driving that purpose forward as protagonist.

He could have just...not signed off the rights to make a movie? I looked it up and it seems like he did it thinking nothing would ever come of it. That's just irresponsible to maintaining his underground image.

I'm not sure I'm reading this right. It sounds to me like the author is saying Moore is somehow both a part of the mainstream yet also subverts it? Which could make sense in that he uses nontraditional characters (RORSHACH) in the comic that he seems to have wanted to be more indie than it now is. But again, not suuuper sure.

This guy...he uh, he really liked Watchmen I guess...Cause wow

What about the dozen other characters? Obviously this one article can touch on only so much, but Jon gets discussed in length and the Newsvendor gets a small section, but others like Laurie and Rorshach only get passing mentions. Laurie in particular has some very complicated traumas that would be interesting to examine in depth.

Makes me think of the convo on Mars. Jon's so separated that Laurie has to convince him that the human experience is worthwhile.

It's one thing to be awful to someone on the internet but it's something else entirely to take that hate and bring it into someone's physical life. I wonder, did this level of harassment happen before the internet age? And what is it a result of? Part of me thinks that doing something anonymously over the internet is part of it because with the internet it feels like you'll never face consequences.

In the linked article, one of the first things said is this: "...journalist Amanda Hess describes rape threats directed at her for simply being a woman with an Internet connection. She notes that 72.5 percent of people who reported being stalked or harassed online between 2000 and 2012 in one study were women. For women of color, the online complexities are even worse."

So much praise! While I'm interested in getting into Domain of One's Own because of it, I'm curious about negative comments. Does anyone not like this initiative?

It's hard to remember sometimes that capitalism affects education. This is an excellent reminder.

I feel like this sentence sums up the life story of every teacher I've ever had who had a cool idea and no way of doing it.

I would say ed-tech is unacceptably behind-the-curve! I was lucky enough to go to school in an area that was very high tech so we had smartboards by middle school and they introduced iPads to the classroom in high school. My brother's class had chalkboards and computers that were at least a decade old. While free software is nice to get from Google I wish educators could have access to better hardware across the country, especially considering how necessary it is to know and understand technology today.