benfridge • reading

"There was the belief, long honored among American intellectuals and artists and writers, that a place such as I came from could be returned to only at the price of intellectual death; cut off from the cultural springs of the metropolis, the American countryside is Circe and Mammon." "The wild is flowing back like a tide..." "Every day I am confronted by the question of what inheritance I will leave. What do I have that I am using up?" From Why I am not Going to Buy a Computer, "...when somebody has used a computer to write work that is demonstrably better than Dante's, and when this better is demonstrably attributable to the use of a computer, then I will speak of computer with a more respectful tone of voice, though I still will not buy one," and, "If the use of a computer is a new idea, then a newer idea is not to use one."

marrowbones • reading