Slog - Comments on Genji's Door http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/genjis_door And now for a little beauty, which is plucked like a fruit from one of the many pages that make up what is often claimed to be the first novel, The Tale of Genji, in all of the world that (barely at first but more so later) made it into the recorded history of the only animal in the universe known to this animal, the human, that can store its language, its memories, its ideas, debts, dreams externally, inorganically, outside of its body as marks that to the poetically minded appear as the dessicated breath of this being, this exception... Copyright 2008 Wed, 02 May 2007 15:36:01 -0800 Sat, 12 May 2007 17:29:51 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Billy In this way, writing cuts humans off from "natural" instincts, leaving them susceptible to both great and terrible behaviors, alternating from heroism to zombieism.

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