Word: dicks
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Perhaps the most horrible damage is done, though, to our conception of knowledge itself. For in such circumstances knowledge ultimately becomes not knowing, but data,entirely severed from human insight and even human use. It is no longer the real and understandable, "Reading Moby Dick makes me wonder about the difference in life between good and evil," but the aimless and synthetic "According to Eselmann (op. cit.) the theme of Moby Dick is good and evil," the sort of reference one can make without even knowing whom to call Ishmael...
...Blade Runner, an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1969 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains. Los Angeles is a Japanized nighttown of sleaze and silicon, fetid steam and perpetual rain. This baroque Tomorrowland juggles images from a dozen yesterdays: walk out of the rain and into a 1940s world of overhead fan blades and women...
...Walter Isaacson. Reported by David Beckwith/Washington and Dick Thompson/San Francisco
...Frederic Golden. Reported by Laura Lopez/Mexico and Dick Thompson/San Francisco
When that sentence was pronounced on the Dick Cavett show last winter, fireworks were expected. Mailer had never been known to ignore a taunt; he had devoted whole chapters to demolitions of competing writers. Instead, there was an uncharacteristic silence. Six months later, Mailer has provided an answer. But it, too, is atypical. For if, as the editor of his new book claims, Mailer was "the literary world's finest counterpuncher" since Hemingway, he no longer deserves the title or the hype. Pieces and Pontifications demonstrates that, despite a pugilistic stance, the author has deserted the ring for color...