HUMOR: Precursor
From: qotd-request@ensu.ucalgary.ca (Quote of the day) "Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life..." - Robert Bridges, Testament of Beauty (1930) Book I, ll.722-8 [forwarder notes: Excuse me for the digression, but I felt this passage from Robert Bridges' Testament of Beauty (1930) worth passing on, for the prescience with which he seems almost to have foreseen the internet as the probable child of radio. (The orthography is, of course, his.)] -------------------------------------------------------------- Send quotation submissions to qotd@ensu.ucalgary.ca Send list changes or requests to qotd-request@ensu.ucalgary.ca |
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