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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000076.txt from 2006/05

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 19:11:30 -0400


=E2=80=9CThe television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced=20=
human=20
beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, dra=
ined=20
of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings=20
were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and =20
brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They w=
ere =20
atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and w=
ho =20
could lament the loss?=E2=80=9D
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-Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author twice nominated for the Nobel =20
Prize in literature
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