*Quoting Aquinas:"The senses delight in things duly proportioned as in something akin to them, for, the sense, too, is a kind of reason as is every cognitive power." (107)
p. 109: Medievals associated the message with both the book and the word.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
from notes on "The Gutenberg Galaxy" by Marshall McLuhan
*Quoting Aquinas:"The senses delight in things duly proportioned as in something akin to them, for, the sense, too, is a kind of reason as is every cognitive power." (107)
p. 109: Medievals associated the message with both the book and the word.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
quotation from iris murdoch novel
"Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage." IRIS MURDOCH The Sea, the Sea
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