La veille de la cybersécurité

IN 1992, THE poet Anne Carson published a little book called Short Talks. It's a series of micro-essays, ranging in length from a sentence to a paragraph, on seemingly disconnected subjects--orchids, rain, the mythic Andean vicuña. Her "Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff" is what it sounds like. Her "Short Talk on Trout" is mostly about the types of trout that appear in haiku. In what passes for the book's introduction, Carson writes, with dry Canadian relatability, "I will do anything to avoid boredom. It is the task of a lifetime."