Before The Web | With Griffin Dunne

在网络出现之前|与格里芬·邓恩

Modern Love

2017-06-15

17 分钟
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Griffin Dunne of the Amazon series "I Love Dick" reads a story about how distance can make the heart grow discouragingly fonder.
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  • Modern.

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  • From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.

  • This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.

  • I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.

  • Absence does make the heart grow fonder, so fond that sometimes it can cast a shadow over everything else, as it did for David Vesey.

  • Griffin Dunn of the Amazon series I love Dick, reads David's essay before the web, hearts grew silent.

  • Sometimes when I'm watching old movies, I can't help dwelling on the crucial plot devices that have been lost to, well, devices.

  • The missed phone call which today rings in our pockets.

  • The wrong turn down a dark road easily avoided with gps.

  • The long lost love who now lives forever in our Twitter feed.

  • Consider the ending of Doctor Zhivago, when a chance sighting of Lara on a city street leads Yuri's heart to rupture as she disappears before he can reach her.

  • Had the Internet been around during the bolshevik revolution, Yuri and Laura would never have lost each other.

  • They would have been Facebook comrades, boring each other to death with snapshots of food, borscht and ironic observations of proletariat struggle.

  • Consider the plot twist in our own lives, moments that hinged on uncertainty, when communication was tenuous and all information was not laid out before us.

  • Modern technology has made our world smaller and our lives easier, but perhaps it also has diminished life's mysteries, and with them, some sense of romance.

  • In the summer of 1991, without social networks to tether us, I felt such heart bursting longing for a woman I loved, that I traveled across two countries and an ocean to make sure she would not wander out of my life.

  • It was only in her absence, in a total vacuum away from her, that I was able to appreciate the depth of love I felt.

  • We met in March while I was still in college.

  • She had recently graduated and was knocking around Peoria, Illinois, her hometown, figuring out her next step.