The World Is A Strange And Wonderful

Writers Want To Summarize: What Does This Mean? What Did We Learn From This? That's A Very 19th-century Way Of Thinking About Art, Because It Assumes That It Should Make Our Lives Better Or Teach Us Something.

Technology Today Is The Campfire Around Which We Tell Our Stories. There's This Attraction To Light And To This Kind Of Power, Which Is Both Warm And Destructive. We're Especially Drawn To The Power. Many Of The Images Of Technology Are About Making Us More Powerful, Extending What We Can Do. Unfortunately, 95 Percent Of This Is Hype, Because I Think We're Powerful Without It.

It's The Tradition Of American Writers Getting Away In Order To See The Country - To Get A Better View.

You Need To Try To Master The Ability To Feel Sad Without Actually Being Sad.

It's The Tradition Of American Writers Getting Away In Order To See The Country - To Get A Better View.