Discussion Questions
1. How does Weiner establish that the young
man, Smith, is alien?
2. What kind of cultural viewpoint (or technology)
could lie behind a statement like "Of course you can repeat the past"?
3. What is it that the story is subjecting
to the process of estrangement? How?
4. Is the recreation of a twenty-year-old
series another sort of extrapolation?
5. Does the plot of Stranger in Town
have
anything to do with the theme of "Distant Signals"? |