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The Touch
«There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.»
Author: Alexander Cockburn
| Keywords:
correction, delete, deleted, electronic, finality, gust, gusts, insert, inserted, inserting, key word, massacre, negate, negated, negating, paragraphs, terminal, The Terminal, The Touch, whimsicality
«When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed...she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.»
Author: Lester B. Pearson
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
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Gifts
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preference, Sight and Sound, The Gift, The Sound, The Touch
«The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.»
Author: Louis Aragon
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
dimly, drifts, fauna, gateway, gateways, human activity, Human Touch, lighthouse, lighthouses, light touch, lit, luxuriate, luxuriates, Marine, Marines, plait, Plaited, plaiting, slur, slurred, slurs, syllable, The Gateway, The Lighthouse, The Touch, vegetation, zones
«There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.»