Ben Lerner Hears Ghosts in the Wires
In a short story called “Wireless,” published in Scribner’s in 1901, Rudyard Kipling described “a glass tube” with “two tiny silver plugs, and between them an infinitesimal pinch of metallic dust.” Fiddling with the plugs, Kipling’s protagonist slips into a trance and spontaneously transcribes John Keats’s “The Eve of St. Agnes,” a poem he has […]
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