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[Linda Watson <linda.watson AT Egarden.com>]

As an electronic conversation starter for tonight's pow-wow --

I've just finished Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicron" and am 2/3s of the 
way through David Brooks's "Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How 
They Got There." I wish I'd read them in the opposite order, though, since 
the folks in Cryptonomicron are SO Bobo!

So, what are your thoughts on (to quote the Amazon review) "the bourgeois 
bohemians--'Bobos' --an unlikely blend of mainstream culture and 1960s-era 
counterculture that, according to David Brooks, represents both America's 
present and future: 'These Bobos define our age. They are the new 
establishment. Their hybrid culture is the atmosphere we all breathe. Their 
status codes now govern social life.'"

If you don't have an opinion, you can easily disguise this by saying 
something unintelligible, which we will all just take as an encrypted message.

Cheers, Linda


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