i have a problem. my eyes hurt, twitch. they betray me. i spend 9 or 10 hours a day staring at blinking scrolling screens. i have forgotten the quiet reads i had in school. reading now involves the purr of machines, printers and cpu's. i don't flip or feel pages anymore. i barely write anything by hand anymore, some post-its or jots on a notebook maybe. in school i took hand-written notes on notecards while reading. now i skim, scan, click, double-click, type. i wonder through amazon or google books instead of shelves. i'm addicted to wikipedia. i skip through nyt online and do a daily ceremonious blogroll. i've been blogging for over four years now, and i've changed. i don't know if it's for better or worse.no doubt george steiner would disapprove.
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It's neither good nor bad. It just is. The world, she changes. We are both the pushed and the pulled.
I hear ya on the feeling pages thing. There's something about holding a book...
chet brayan this is such the modern condition, inescapable, actual... gonna go journal now.. abrazos, daniel
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