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“The trees were budding, bright clouds sailing through a too-blue sky, and though he knew it wasn’t true, he had a sense of the world turning, and him along with it. He saw it as a promise.”
― Henry, Himself
― Henry, Himself
“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
“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
“The stars are so big,
The Earth is so small,
Stay as you are.”
― The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects
The Earth is so small,
Stay as you are.”
― The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects
“The same nursery rhyme comments on the consequences of the fall of Humpty-Dumpty. That is the point about the King’s horses and men. They, too, are fragmented and specialized. Having no unified vision of the whole, they are helpless. Humpty-Dumpty is an obvious example of integral wholeness. The mere existence of the wall already spelt his fall. James Joyce in Finnegans Wake never ceases to interlace these themes, and the title of the work indicates his awareness that “a-stone-aging” as it may be, the electric age is recovering the unity of plastic and iconic space, and is putting Humpty-Dumpty back together again.”
― Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
― Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
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