Monday, September 24, 2018

Snowflake to Avalanche: Curse and Blessing of Exile

Voltaire — 'No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.'

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain. 
~ Stephen Hawking

Books just keep getting longer. We conflate physical heft with artistic or intellectual merit. Thus our new golden age of the doorstop... golden ages