It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage of ...society; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The eye-balls were seared with a milky mucus; The madness of a dying soul... Was written on her face-- But the multitude saw why she wore the bandage."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Computers "remember" things in the form of discrete entries: the input of quantities, graphics, words, etc. Each item is separable..., perhaps designated by a unique address or file name, and all of it subject to total recall. Unless the machine malfunctions, it can regurgitate everything it has stored exactly as it was entered, whether a single number or a lengthy document. This is what we expect of the machine. Human memory, on the other hand, is the invisible psychic adhesive that holds our identity together from moment to moment. This makes it a radically different phenomenon from computer memory. For one thing, it is fluid rather than granular, more like a wave than a particle. Like a wave, it spreads through the mind, puddling up here and there in odd personal associations that may be of the most inexplicable kind. It flows not only through the mind, but through the emotions, the senses, the body. We remember things as no computer can--in our muscles and reflexes: how to swim, play an instrument, use a tool.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »