Dear Nicholas Carr:

I haven't yet read your recent article in the Atlantic (it's so long!), but I understand you think that constant web surfing is turning people into attention deficient zombies who find it impossible to read anything longer than a paragraph.

I myself have been surfing the web, in it's various and everchanging guises, for well over fifteen years now, and, as you can see, maintain my own blog, the entries in which are rarely over a paragraph or two.

Over the last ten years, as my web browsing and blogging have continued to expand, I have also read, in addition to many other things, the complete fiction of Henry James, half the novels of Iris Murdoch, and, come the end of this month, the complete fiction of Fyodor Dostoesvsky in tandem with Joseph Franks' five-volume, 2300 page biography.

Fuck you.

Sincerely,

RJM