Editor interviews Noam Chomsky

Edward Pahnjorndice, editor of the Panopticon

• EP: I'm terribly sorry about all this, no disrespect was intended and we've pulled the plug on the upcoming scheduled interviews with Dave Dimp, Director Zliplitt, and Edward Armourall
• NC: Good, I don't think I could have taken much more of this nonsense
• EP: Well, it wasn't exactly nonsense--we were using these interviews as a way to re-present some of the more notable members of our staff to our readers--actually kind of trying to firm up the characters and rethink the story line--and you were handy
• NC: Story line?
• EP: Yeah, in a frame-breaking meta-communicative way. Did you ever see the cineplay Neverending Story?
• NC: Yes, and I wrote a paper on how it explaining how it subtly reinforces notions of social structuring and hierarchical...
• EP: Uh, Yeah...Oops, excuse me, my wireless wiretalker is bouncing around in my watch pocket, demanding attention--I have to take this call, excuse me a second
• NC: mmph...
• EP: (in other room, not audible)... so for Wotan's sake just call me right back and tell me the Van der Graaf tower has caught fire again or the doghorse's trapped in a mine...really... ANYTHING to cut this short