Issue 138

..have used many of his own words from the book that was also published at the time. The invention of the printing press not only enabled the democratisation of knowledge but also saw the end of the age of everyday reliance on memory and deep symbolic representation. In a world without printing literacy is rather…

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..found a story that I’d seen in on the NZ Prime News about a Kiwi musician, Don McGlashan, (whom I saw in the Comedy Festival a few years ago in The Front Lawn), who’d ridden his bicycle into an open car door, (somewhat ironically in Auckland’s Dominion Rd, which featured in a hit song he’d…

..some lost pride with a fast and lucrative sale on Gumtree. It was overcast anyway and it was also getting dark so I had to move fast. I was heaving the antiquated looking beast into a more photogenic position one of the wheels fell off – and then I remembered that was one of the…

..the diary I note down odd words and phrases that catch my attention and one of them was a comment on a popular bit of Newspeak. i.e. ‘forward’ is the new black. This touches on another gripe that probably falls into the realm of yer Grumpy Old Men, but just as the notion of progress…

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