The professional tends to classify and to specialize, to accept uncritically the ground rules of the environment. The ground rules provided by the ma… - Marshall McLuhan

Since Sputnik there is no Nature. Nature is an item contained in a man-made environment of satellites and information.

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

"There is an impression abroad that literary folk are fast readers. Wine tasters are not heavy drinkers. Literary people read slowly because they sample the complex dimensions and flavors of words and phrases. They strive for totality not lineality. They are well aware that the words on the page have to be decanted with the utmost skill. Those who imagine they read only for "content" are illusioned."