Technology and Modernization Quotes in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Page 2
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph). We used Reg Keeland/a.k.a. Steven T. Murray's English language translation.
| Quote #4 […] he […] put his iBook on the desk in his office. Then he stopped and looked about him with a sheepish expression. […] There was nowhere to plug in the broadband cable. He did not even have a telephone jack to connect an old dial-up modem. (8.84) |
Ha ha. Has this ever happened to you? Nothing sadder than a computer without an Internet connection.
| Quote #5 In the second week of February, Salander's laptop fell victim to an accident that was so uncalled for she felt an urgent desire to kill someone. (11.102) |
This laptop accident is what puts the whole Salander-Bjurman plot in motion. Then again, Bjurman would surely have raped her anyway at some point. That's his plan.
| Quote #6 [Salander:] "Where's the lens, you're wondering. That's the great think about it. Wide angle fibre optics. The lens looks like a button and sits hidden in the buckle of the shoulder strap." (14.50) |
Salander uses her rucksack with video camera technology to foil Bjurman's plan to take over her life.
