I’m working on a review of a book about the Web and yesterday found that I’d written an opening paragraph that is a potential winner of this year’s Bulwer-Lytton award:

As the boa constrictor of culture swallows the large, furry mammal that is the Web, you can see the lump traveling further down the alimentary tract, getting more fully digested day by day. How you feel about books explaining the Web depends on where inside the snake (oh, metaphor, don’t let me down!) you are.

I’m confident that my new opening paragraph is better, simply because, well, it has no choice.

Can we please pretend I was joking?

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