[b]Ali Smith
Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.[/b]
Let alone by Bing.
Words are themselves organisms…
Sure, we can call them that.
No one remembering that old man.
Except, I just did, there.
Should we file this one under, “big fucking deal”?
The boy was in the Hitler Youth, he says, and he was reading a book one day, he was really enjoying it, until his troop leader found him reading it and gave him a severe warning because it was by a, a Jewish writer, it was a banned book. And the boy was so incensed that this really good book he’d been reading had been banned—was the wrong kind of book, the wrong kind of art, if you like, written by the wrong kind of writer—that he thought twice, he began to ask questions about what was happening, and then, it turns out, he went on with his sister, Sophie Scholl, their name was Scholl, to do this stellar work, to try to change things, make it possible for people to think, I mean differently. And they fought back, and they did change things. They did a lot of good before they were caught. And they were killed for it.
True story: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=179469&p=2351269&hilit=sophie+scholl#p2351269
It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don’t know.
Maybe.
Giving is fraught with danger — as is taking.
Yin and yang as it were.