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...that Mr. Badger is a Luddite. He merely points out that technology has a mixed record. CB radio was a Toad mania long ago. Technology is sometimes, in the end, a little stupid--as anything must be that was brilliant yesterday but was surpassed overnight--a monster that lives on a hungry, dynamic need for its own obsolescence. The universe of Gutenberg should no more be an abandoned graveyard than, say, the American city, which, a generation after World War II, seemed to be in decline and headed toward extinction. Why did we need the cities when...
...made it plausible by remembering that he "hated anything which sounded like 'religion'" and "had always regarded Vedanta philosophy, or yoga, as the ultimate in mystery-mongering nonsense." Here is the perfect skeptic's guide to faith, in which even the most vaporous of concepts is rendered with a brilliant everyday lucidity ("The Ego...is like a man who will stand right in front of you at a horse race...
...year that the playwright turned 35. In fact, Shapiro devoted five years of his life to a single year of Shakespeare’s. Like a detective sifting through a historical paper trail, the Columbia scholar squeezed out connections that would explain what catalyzed this year of brilliant writing. Shapiro immersed himself in the world of Shakespeare by reading every book Shakespeare might have read during 1599. He paid special attention to unpublished materials such as letters, sermons, and diaries. He admits, “a good deal of what I make of [this] information remains speculative...
...full whether in class accompanied by a pool of drool in your notebook, or at the computer, where zoning-out encourages such productive behavior as watching videos of monkeys kickboxing. Fortunately, by senior year in college, some of us begin to realize the foolishness of our ways in grand, brilliant, epiphanies. No matter what you tell the nocturnal vixen, her homely sister, morning, is always there to tear you from her nighttime embrace. You may say that you’re not a “morning person” but she’s there even if you wake...
...Brilliant and beer-soaked, this book is ostensibly about a lazy, poor student who's writing a novel. But he loses control of his characters, and they get mixed up with local Dublin types and figures out of Gaelic myth who collide and commingle in glorious, category-defying cacophony...