December 2011
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The Case For the Invisible
When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern recognition to structure the experience.
~ Marshall McLuhan from Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! (2011)
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Six-Word Short Stories
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
~ Alan Moore
Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.
~ Richard Powers
The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.
~ Orson Scott Card
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
~ Margaret Atwood
Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
~ Vernor Vinge
(via Wired)
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“This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me, and...”
– Rumi
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“The eyes only see what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
– ~ Henri Bergson
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“There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn’t always come...”
– ~ Ann Aguirre
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“The Body experiences joy, the tongue eats it:
bright, hot, unquestionable as...”
– Adelia Prado
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“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other...”
– ~ Dali Lama
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White Spaces (extract)
To think of motion not merely as a function of the body but as an extension of the mind. In the same way, to think of speech not as an extension of the mind but as a function of the body. Sounds emerge from the voice to enter the air and surround and bounce off and enter the body that occupies that air, and though they cannot be seen, these sounds are no less a gesture than a hand is when...