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(line from a dream last night) “Life is a bit of a gamble.” ………………………………… Well, there you go. The proverbial roll of the dice especially in personal choices and decisions. We do make (up) our own lives as we go. … Continue reading →

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the most significant, influential American poet of the past six decades and prominent defender of the First Amendment. Author of the top-selling poetry book of that same time period–A Coney Island of the Mind. His autographs from two … Continue reading →

“The technologies are spoilers.” “Turning our backs on the full sensory business of living, we have installed another-proxy-world between ourselves and that original place.”–Sven Birkerts (Prefatory notes: The two paradigms being print/book-based culture, the other e-mediated culture. “Immodest” as in … Continue reading →

Much of our early life consists of following our personal interests, exploring our ruling passions, and seeking the daily information we require as we go. In this, frequently is a desire to control as much of our lives as possible … Continue reading →

“The play’s the thing.”–William Shakespeare, Hamlet So much of what people do is play right from an early age. A toddler likes to be swung in the arms of a father. Those early trips to the playground. The fascination with … Continue reading →

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops–a neverending black hole into which the hoi-polloi regularly pours money into. The planned obsolescence and the mass’s common denominator desires to own the absolutely latest gadgets, pointed out by Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman in … Continue reading →

Average no.of times smartphone-users check their phones per day.

“When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.” –William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night “Long as I remember the … Continue reading →