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                             Dinty W. Moore

                               author of

                    "The Emperor's Virtual Clothes:
                The Naked Truth About Internet Culture"

        (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995, ISBN 1565120965)

                               will speak

                      Thursday, November 2nd, 1995
                               8:00 p.m.
                       at St. Edward's University
                    3001 S. Congress, Austin, Texas
                      Main Building, Maloney Room

                             free admission


Here are a couple of blurbs from the net:

Edupage 10/6/95
http://educom.edu/edupage.old/edupage.95/edupage-10.06.95

   ON VIRTUAL RELATIONSHIPS
   A new book on the Internet -- "The Emperor's Virtual Clothes:  The
   Naked Truth About Internet Culture" -- cautions against taking e-mail
   too seriously:  "Trading e-mail is a sort of relationship, but it is
   not a full relationship -- not even close.  I worry about a day when we
   all communicate this way, choosing our words maybe *too* carefully,
   just as carefully as choosing our natures and dispositions, our online
   names, and even our genders, based less on who we are than on what we
   wish to project."
   (Chronicle of Higher Education 6 Oct 95 A23)

BONG Bull No. 334
(The Burned-Out Newspapercreatures Guild's Newsletter)
http://www.au.com/bong/bongs/bong334.htm

   THE SAPPER FACING THE CYBER-BUNKERS OF EMPIRE.  Former
   Unipresser Dinty Moore -- his real name -- has a great book
   coming out next month about the Internet.  Having trolled
   through on-line sex, flame wars, newsgroup agonies and
   therapies, global e-mail and the rest, Moore concludes that
   Thoreauphiles have nothing to fear from the new computer
   medium.  As serious journalists know, content is the miracle,
   not the gibberish to get to it.  Huzzahs with oak leaf clusters
   to the selfless forager Dinty.  The opus is "The Emperor's
   Virtual Clothes," tentatively $17.95 from Algonquin Books of
   Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing.
        Moore himself is now professing English at Penn State
   Altoona.  E-mail him at dwm7 (at) psuvm.psu.edu.

For more information, call St. Edward's PR at 448-8435.  (Don't call me!
I have nothing to do with this event, just saw an announcement in the
paper and decided to spread the word online.)

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