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The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body. The condensation of millions of books on a single device, or their evaporation in a data cloud, seems to presage what is destined to happen to our souls, to the coming end of selfhood, even of embodiment. If this sounds fanciful, imagine what a lover of hand-written codices might have thought in 1450 about the rise of print. Manuscripts, he would protest, were once rare, precious, hard to create, dedicated to holy or venerable subjects; print would make them cheap, derivative, profane, and easily disposable. And didn’t exactly this happen to human beings in the age of print, which is the modern age?
—Adam Kirsch
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Milton Charles Rush, 1941 - 2013



My father died yesterday after a long fight with cancer and other health issues. He turned 72 on August 1st.




              Dependencies
                        — for Milton Charles Rush, 1941-2013

The edge leads to the angle.
The angle distorts the edge.
Distortion is dependent upon perception.
Boundaries can't be calculated without a volume
(but may not need to be).
Position is meaningless for any one thing.
There is neither origin nor destination.
Perception is dependent upon distortion.
Volume can't be calculated without a boundary
(but may not need to be).
Existence is position for any one thing.
The void is infinite,
yet it has grown again.


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