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How has technology changed our lives?
February 8, 2026 at 7:15 PM
How has technology changed our lives?
Its people needed to break out, to invent the hatred that could liberate them, and they found an Austrian misfit only too happy to do the job.
February 8, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Its people needed to break out, to invent the hatred that could liberate them, and they found an Austrian misfit only too happy to do the job.
They can pretend they're someone else.
February 8, 2026 at 3:15 AM
They can pretend they're someone else.
Just as all women are pretty, at heart all wines are good, though some are very much better.
February 7, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Just as all women are pretty, at heart all wines are good, though some are very much better.
The most perfect crime of all: when the victims are either willing, or aren't aware that they are victims.
February 7, 2026 at 11:15 AM
The most perfect crime of all: when the victims are either willing, or aren't aware that they are victims.
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age.
February 7, 2026 at 3:15 AM
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age.
The TV series was a pale imitation, fatally damaged by the talkshow presenter.
February 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
The TV series was a pale imitation, fatally damaged by the talkshow presenter.
Many hundreds of perfect short stories have been written -- perfect in the sense that a good carpenter can construct a perfectly-made table.
February 6, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Many hundreds of perfect short stories have been written -- perfect in the sense that a good carpenter can construct a perfectly-made table.
When the first female Darwin or Freud appears it will have an astonishingly liberating force, and could change the world in an almost religious way.
February 6, 2026 at 3:15 AM
When the first female Darwin or Freud appears it will have an astonishingly liberating force, and could change the world in an almost religious way.
The past became little more than an attic of old trunks to be rummaged through for the latest nostalgia fad.
February 5, 2026 at 7:15 PM
The past became little more than an attic of old trunks to be rummaged through for the latest nostalgia fad.
The technological medium of cinema creates the communication level by which something like the De Niro character in Taxi Driver becomes a hero.
February 5, 2026 at 11:15 AM
The technological medium of cinema creates the communication level by which something like the De Niro character in Taxi Driver becomes a hero.
At least five or six had to die, to make the kind of splash that would reach the evening news and stay there.
February 5, 2026 at 3:15 AM
At least five or six had to die, to make the kind of splash that would reach the evening news and stay there.
We may see a new religious leader appearing, who'll unite the Green movement and all these New Age movements.
February 4, 2026 at 7:15 PM
We may see a new religious leader appearing, who'll unite the Green movement and all these New Age movements.
The story of the children on the island was framed by a larger story involving a massive air battle.
February 4, 2026 at 11:15 AM
The story of the children on the island was framed by a larger story involving a massive air battle.
I think we're living at a transfer point, where we're moving from one economy of the imagination and the body to a future economy of the imagination and the body.
February 4, 2026 at 3:15 AM
I think we're living at a transfer point, where we're moving from one economy of the imagination and the body to a future economy of the imagination and the body.
My stories were written in snatched minutes, snatched half hours here and there, scribbled on the backs of envelopes . . . it was all done in a kind of spur-of-the-moment, knocked-out-rapidly fashion.
February 3, 2026 at 7:15 PM
My stories were written in snatched minutes, snatched half hours here and there, scribbled on the backs of envelopes . . . it was all done in a kind of spur-of-the-moment, knocked-out-rapidly fashion.
A major advertising campaign for a new kind of motorcar, hair-spray or washing powder may be the only kind of reality we have now.
February 3, 2026 at 11:15 AM
A major advertising campaign for a new kind of motorcar, hair-spray or washing powder may be the only kind of reality we have now.
A politician's lies are the new truth.
February 3, 2026 at 3:15 AM
A politician's lies are the new truth.
There's always spare processing capacity in the brain -- we see that when we sleep, dream.
February 2, 2026 at 7:15 PM
There's always spare processing capacity in the brain -- we see that when we sleep, dream.
Anatomy and physiology seem to be a wonderful storehouse of images and metaphors of every conceivable kind.
February 2, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Anatomy and physiology seem to be a wonderful storehouse of images and metaphors of every conceivable kind.
Where is the look that pierces walls?
February 2, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Where is the look that pierces walls?
Paolozzi's role in providing our most important visual abstracting service should not be overlooked.
February 1, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Paolozzi's role in providing our most important visual abstracting service should not be overlooked.
Dali's "The Persistence of Memory."
February 1, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Dali's "The Persistence of Memory."
The fiction is already there.
February 1, 2026 at 3:15 AM
The fiction is already there.
I think beaches are my spiritual home.
January 31, 2026 at 7:15 PM
I think beaches are my spiritual home.