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A Star in the Gutenberg Galaxy

Portrait of Cervantes by Juan Martinez de Jáuregui y Aguilar

Don Quixote and The Enchanted Twenty-First Century I finished Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes about a week ago. It took years to get through all 940 pages of this paperback Penguin classic, printed in 1952, with small type and thin pages. Something that prompted me to read it was Marshal McLuhan’s Understanding Media (1964). […]

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People Love to Talk and Animals Love to Lounge

Meerkate lounging at San Diego Zoo

Look at yourself from a bird’s eye view. There you are, sitting at a table for hours, just making sounds out of your throat and doing nothing in particular. You aren’t lounging, you are probably reliving past experiences, sharing stories, listening and thereby living vicariously through other people’s stories. You may be world traveling and having direct arguments with the President! From your head. We love language because it produces a more exciting reality.