Paul Pintarich, resentful of people’s superficial interests and critical of a digital society. Rejecting time as an excuse, implores people to read for worldly perseverance. With the cynical tone of a defeatist Pintarich writes, “So what does this have to do with my job as a book reviewer on a daily metropolitan newspaper? Nothing perhaps, because, as our advertising department polls reveal, most of you won’t have read this far anyway.” The hilarious and strongly rhetoric paragraph of a fictitious dialogue between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, both great authors of the so called “lost generation”, represents Pintarich’s contemptuous perspective on the changing times. Yelling through text, “You dumb bastards, get off your butts,