READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN: A Memoir in Books. By Azar Nafisi. Random House. 347 pp. $23.95
In an age of pacemakers and microchip implants, the old nightmare vision of man melding into machine no longer seems completely far-fetched. Not to worry, says a noted observer of technology. Surprising things happen when the body interacts with technology.
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