Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Dana Gioia: On American Culture Becoming one Vast Infomercial

"I have a reccurring nightmare. I am in Rome visiting the Sistine Chapel. I look up at Michelangelo's incomparable fresco of the "Creation of Man." I see God stretching out his arm to touch the reclining Adam's finger. And then I notice in the other hand Adam is holding a Diet Pepsi. "


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*excerpt from: Stanford News

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Not a diet pepsi!!!!

Now if it was a Tab- that'd be bitchin'

shann, tab fan

Nick said...

I guess Eve had a roving eye.

Mirabilis said...

Full speech at:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/june20/gradtrans-062007.html

Nick said...

Cynthia, thanks for the link.