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“Why? The answer is central to any understanding of media. Why does a child like to chatter about the events of its day, however jerkily? Why do we prefer novels and movies about familiar scenes and characters? Because for rational beings to see or re-cognize their experience in a new material form is an unbought grace of life. Experience translated into a new medium literally bestows a delightful playback of earlier awareness. The press repeats the excitement we have in using our wits, and by using our wits we can translate the outer world into the fabric of our own beings.”
― Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
― Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
“All you need to do right now is be open to the idea that your responses to current things in your life might be driven by, say, five-year-old you. Would you let a five-year-old make major decisions for your marriage or family? Would you let a five-year-old decide your career moves? I don’t think so.”
― Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free
― Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free
“Satire,” said Swift, “is a glass in which we see every countenance but our own.”
― Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
― Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
“Do you remember, darling
A year ago today
When we gave ourselves to each other
Before you went away
At the end of that pleasant summer weather
Which we had spent by the sea together?
How little we knew, my darling,
All that the year would bring!
Did I think of the wretched mornings
When I should kiss my ring
And long with all my heart to see
The girl who gave the ring to me?
We have not been sorry darling
We loved each other so-
We will not take back the promises
We made a year ago-
And so again, my darling
I give myself to you,
With graver thought than a year ago
With love that is deep and true.”
―
A year ago today
When we gave ourselves to each other
Before you went away
At the end of that pleasant summer weather
Which we had spent by the sea together?
How little we knew, my darling,
All that the year would bring!
Did I think of the wretched mornings
When I should kiss my ring
And long with all my heart to see
The girl who gave the ring to me?
We have not been sorry darling
We loved each other so-
We will not take back the promises
We made a year ago-
And so again, my darling
I give myself to you,
With graver thought than a year ago
With love that is deep and true.”
―
“Humpty-Dumpty is the familiar example of the clown unsuccessfully imitating the acrobat. Just because all the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put Humpty-Dumpty together again, it doesn’t follow that electromagnetic automation couldn’t have put Humpty-Dumpty back together. The integral and unified egg had no business sitting on a wall anyway. Walls are made of uniformly fragmented bricks that arise with specialisms and bureaucracies. They are the deadly enemies of integral beings like eggs. Humpty-Dumpty met the challenge of the wall with a spectacular collapse.”
― Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
― Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
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Nick’s 2025 Year in Books
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