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You plug your mind
into machine,
ignore your senses,
cut down fence whose
purpose has been
long-forgotten;
the medium
is still the message
though, you can’t
ignore the wreckage
that your cutting
has begotten.
The epistemic
damage when you
discard all the
systems special
tuned to gather,
filter, and
exploit reality
leads one to places
dark of meaning,
‘lectric
Google Maps review as Russian poetry
It always takes a considerable time to see the simple and central fact about anything.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Cat curled, sleeping,
black and white ball,
tail turns, dreaming,
breathing quite small;
eyelid opens, pupil narrows –
then, back to dreams.
poetry and gold and dross
Such were the thoughts—if to visions so imperfect and undefined as those which wandered through his enfeebled brain, the term can be applied—which
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
The vulgarisation of modern life has come from the governing class; from the highly educated class.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
It is obvious, of course, that a permanent ideal is absolutely necessary to anything like progress or reform. You cannot reform what is eternally formless; and you cannot march towards what is always moving about.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
This article, though absurdly long, is so visually and interactively appealing. I’ve also always wondered about undersea cable maintenance, and I had no idea how it was done or how often it was done, or by whom it was done.
But I said that I opened my intellect as I opened my mouth, in order to shut it again on something solid.