The Tv Generation Is Postliterate And Retribalized.

In A Cool Medium, The Audience Is An Active Constituent Of The Viewing Or Listening Experience. A Girl Wearing Open-mesh Silk Stockings Or Glasses Is Inherently Cool And Sensual Because The Eye Acts As A Surrogate Hand In Filling In The Low-definition Image Thus Engendered. Which Is Why Boys Make Passes At Girls Who Wear Glasses.

A Moral Point Of View Too Often Serves As A Substitute For Understanding In Technological Matters.

Only The Small Secrets Need To Be Protected. The Large Ones Are Kept Secret By Public Incredulity.

Any Expensive Ad Represents The Toil, Attention, Testing, Wit, Art, And Skill Of Many People. Far More Thought And Care Go Into The Composition Of Any Prominent Ad In A Newspaper Or Magazine Than Go Into The Writing Of Their Features And Editorials.

While Poe And The Symbolists Were Exploring The Irrational In Literature, Freud Had Begun To Explore The Resonant Figure/ground Double-plot Of The Conscious And Unconscious.