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Inspired by Saturday’s Derision, we started thinking about literature and numbers. Essentially, we are all number crunchers, whether we want to admit it or not. You don’t think Faulkner and Fitzgerald went to Hollywood for fun, do you? In the spirit of numbers, we’re going to shift into a slightly chronological path. John Hollander starts us off with linguistics and the technology of literature. We find we are forever justifying the role of literature in the capitalist world. That’s why binary code, engineering, and finance are part of the numerical relationship with modern literature. And now Kindle is back. How fitting that 1984 was erased (OK, admittedly an easy correlation on our part). If you are like us, you prefer the real thing to the amazin’ Amazon creation. Do you remember reading Spin to keep up with the goings on of Green Day? Well, the literature of social networking has contributed to that downfall. Finally, we wouldn’t be able to discuss numbers without taking on the economic crisis of the day: a new book on Ford’s good old days and the stock market’s downward effect on arts endowment. Back to the calculator. – Andrew Geer
