April 30, 2015
"... something so risibly quaint that it has come back in vogue: hardcover books..."
A striking phrase from a New Yorker article called "The Viral Wedding Photos That Conquered China" ("Wedding photos often require a cornucopia of performative props....")
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Amusing. One would think gay weddings would be a big number there, given the dearth of women, but not so. I guess they haven't been "civilized " enough yet.
It looks more like a hard-sided clutch purse than a hardback book.
The family Bible, I would assume. With extra pages to enter births, deaths and abortions.
China is Panem. Beijing is the Capitol. District 12 is Tibet.
The hardcover book, if anything about what the books are is apparent, must have been approved of by the censors, or at any rate not on the secret list of unapproved books.
They are now even confiscating books printed in Hong Kong. It wasn't allowed so much before to take just any book into Mainland China, but under the new leadership, they are now paying more attention.
Why are hardcover books risibly (a word that always reminds me of this) quaint?
I like hardcovers: they last.
This trend is about status signaling amongst snooty pretentious SWPLs.
Does it say something interesting that the professional writers paid to write for the New Yorker think physical books are a risibly quaint anachronism?
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