Alice Isn't Dead

Part 1, Chapter 5: Signs & Wonders

May 3, 2016
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INSIGHT

Billboards As A Manufactured Landscape

  • The highway's billboards form a landscape of constant, one-sided messages that shape the traveler's mind.
  • The narrator realizes commercial signs create a surreal, artificial environment replacing natural features.
ANECDOTE

Reading Emails While Driving Nearly Causes Crash

  • The narrator admits to reading Alice's emails while driving and nearly causes an accident.
  • She stops and scolds herself after realizing distracted reading made the drive dangerous.
INSIGHT

How Fragmented Communication Erodes Narrative

  • Scattered modern communication (emails, texts, posts) fragments relationships into blur rather than a clear narrative.
  • The narrator notes older, longer emails gave coherent stories now lost across channels.
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