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“ Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. ”

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With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

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Art is whatever you can get away with.

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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!

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