DISCONNECTED
| “I was mainlining my modem connection. Some
people snort the Internet but I plugged it right into a vein. Very
dangerous but all the big girls living on the techno-edge play with
injectable Internet.” That’s how Paige Elliot described her life.
She was living in a virtual world until she yanked the plug out of
the wall, disconnected herself from the cyberworld and left New York
City for the Catskills. Going cold turkey from her computer addiction is much harder than she would have imagined. Paige experiences deep withdrawals and finds herself trying to score some computer time from her neighboring antique dealer on Main Street, the very attractive Jonathan “Blue is his color and he knows it” Macklin. In Kanah Springs, there's such a collection of eccentrics, Paige looks positively normal by comparison. With nowhere left to turn, Paige must make a go of her shop, Nothing Serious, which sells urban reclamation fountains among other objets d'art. Once she can breath evenly after adapting to the crisis of having no email, she's able to discern how truly appealing Jonathan is. By then Paige has nearly nailed her hand to the store's facade in an attempt to get her sign up and has traded for the use of nearly every tool in Jonathan's store with offerings of blueberry muffins. From being severely disconnected, Paige goes to being profoundly connected, even if this life journey does require being arrested by the feds and spending some time in jail, she’s with Jonathan. |
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