The mother of Narcissus asked a seeress if he would live a long life, and the seeress answered that he would, but only if he remained ignorant of himself.
Put pen to paper and instantly you're a liberal, and it is liberalism that is dying in our postmodern world. Should anarchists mourn?
People didn't know what the Internet was; it took a major stock market correction before people understood that! Like primitives coming upon still water, they didn't recognize their own reflections. So what is the Internet?
The Internet is a mirror.
Is paper a mirror? Should one check the rearview paper before changing lanes? Or does the present provide ample proof that it's all a lie?
Your concerns about the fate of publishing are irrelevant. Both Narcissus (the reflection of human consciousness) and Echo (thesis and antithesis) die, either of the same love/lie, or starvation.
[Re. 'The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology' by Edward Tripp (1970) and 'A Dictionary of Symbols' by J.E. Cirlot (1971)]
Narcissus or Echo?
The mother of Narcissus asked a seeress if he would live a long life, and the seeress answered that he would, but only if he remained ignorant of himself.
Put pen to paper and instantly you're a liberal, and it is liberalism that is dying in our postmodern world. Should anarchists mourn?
People didn't know what the Internet was; it took a major stock market correction before people understood that! Like primitives coming upon still water, they didn't recognize their own reflections. So what is the Internet?
The Internet is a mirror.
Is paper a mirror? Should one check the rearview paper before changing lanes? Or does the present provide ample proof that it's all a lie?
Your concerns about the fate of publishing are irrelevant. Both Narcissus (the reflection of human consciousness) and Echo (thesis and antithesis) die, either of the same love/lie, or starvation.
[Re. 'The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology' by Edward Tripp (1970) and 'A Dictionary of Symbols' by J.E. Cirlot (1971)]