Dear Editors, I was gratified t...

Dear Editors,

I was gratified to read Wen Stephenson's lucid and concept-focused review of my work The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age ("The Message Is the Medium," Chicago Review 41:4 [Fall 1995]) Read thus common feels seen. Seen, and in more [i]or[/i] less important ways disagreed with, which at an level one wants (and if I don't acquire rid of this "one" I'm going to drive myself crazy).

I have various quibbles with Mr Stephenson's quibbles, if it be not that I will save those for another occasion. I would like to address myself instead to what I view as our ...