Word: die
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...People of the Book fear that the page (and reading and writing) will die. Who will adhere to the linear rationality found in books, new and old? Who will obey rules if books of laws are diminished or replaced by lines of code? Who will turn nicely bound pages when everything is available (almost free) on flickering screens? Perhaps only the rich will read books on paper. Perhaps only a few will pay attention to the wisdom on their pages...
...page will not die. It is too handy and highly evolved. The same flat sheet of enhanced paper is so nimble, in fact, that there is no reason why a movie could not be played on it as well. Drama, music videos, great epics in full color all dance across this new page. The eternal sheaf becomes both book and TV screen. Indeed the resolution will be fine enough to read words floating in, around and through cinematic images. We see the beginnings of that already on some websites where image and text intermingle. Is this a movie...
...Auden wrote a splendid poem called "1 September 1939," which, in the original version, he ended with the line, "We must love another, or die." He expunged the line in later editions, judging, rightly, that it rang false, sentimental. I do not think it is the business of the law to tell us, "We must love one another, or else." Nor is it the business of law to forbid us to hate one another...
...deal is blocked, it's the worst of times for Examiner employees. "Boy, have our failings been shoved in our face lately," wrote Examiner columnist Rob Morse after spending three days in the courtroom listening to embarrassing revelations like the horse trading with Brown. "The San Francisco Examiner is dying, and it can't even die with dignity." William Randolph Hearst, who once dubbed his paper "the monarch of the dailies," would probably agree...
...egos to blame here. The rule is you have to lack a pulse to be on a U.S. stamp. Memorial stamps for Presidents can be issued on their first birthday after they die, but everyone else has to wait at least 10 years. Given this rule, stamp designers had little to work with after Americans last year voted the sitcom one of 15 cultural phenomena that best represent the 1990s...