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Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.


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Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.



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Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.



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The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.



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