@joseph_gaglione 2/ "Un hombre que cultiva su jardín, como quería Voltaire...Esas personas, que se ignoran, están salvando el mundo." - Borges. How then, to advance the Paradise Gardener’s craft beyond local dailiness into the reaches of universality-which-endures? Cyberspace, a garden, too.
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Copy of tweet: ‘...for the most part we remain a little-known phenomenon - it's the nature of the work or, as the Lord of the Rings' Sam Gamgee, puts it: “The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm.”’ bugs.scribble.com 7:45 PM · Apr 9, 2021
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Copy of: Marshall McLuhan Understanding media: the extensions of man 'In our age artists are able to mix their media diet as easily as their book diet. A poet like Yeats made the fullest use of oral peasant culture in creating literary effects. Quite early, Eliot made great impact by the careful use of jazz and film form' (p.58.81) Out of insights like this, in profusion, Marshall McLuhan constructs a unified picture of technology-and-mind that undoes stifling specialisations and shows an integrative mind at work.
What of the Gardener’s insight, enfleshed, of the co-evolving bond between planet and person, natural and man-made realms, soil and soul? What, indeed, of the bond between Garden and Cyberspace, of the dirt under the fingernails of these, my transmitting fingers? #RemembranceDay
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