Our abilities in attention
we know very little about and do not actively participate in and yet have a profound effect on our lives
or locally will find this a powerful resource
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time
we learn that they were intelligent
Love and Shame and Love Condition:Very Good Our abilities in attentionAlexander Popper can't stop remembering. Four years old when his father tossed him into Lake Michigan, he was told, Sink or swim, kid. In his mind, he's still bobbing in that frigid water. The rest of this novel's vivid cast of characters also struggle to remain afloat: Popper's mother, stymied by an unhappy marriage, seeks solace in the relentless energy of Chicago; his brother, Leo, shadow boss of the family, retreats into books; paternal