“talking on the phone allows you to carry on conversations while absorbed in other tasks, while maintaining the illusion that the person on the other end of the line is solely focused on your conversation” - this is too good. There’s such an intimacy to phone calls, the illusion you’re alone in the world with another person that video can’t capture.
“talking on the phone allows you to carry on conversations while absorbed in other tasks, while maintaining the illusion that the person on the other end of the line is solely focused on your conversation” - this is too good. There’s such an intimacy to phone calls, the illusion you’re alone in the world with another person that video can’t capture.
<3 thank you! i strongly urge you to read DFW's passage on this, he is more articulate than i am and elaborates this idea to its fullest extent