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They're Not 'Orphan Works', They're 'Hostage Works'
"I killed my facebook page years ago because time clicking around is just dead time. Your brain isn’t resting and it isn’t doing. I think people have to get their heads around this thing. All this unmitigated input is hurting folks. My opinion."
"I don’t claim to have invented it, because it already existed in nature. I just saw it, recognized the value of it, gave it a name, and a description, and showed its benefits. I don’t claim to be the only person to have discovered it."
Even Harvard Can't Afford Subscriptions To Academic Journals; Pushes For Open Access
"And so life is reckoned as nothing. Habitualization devours works, clothes, furniture, one’s wife, and the fear of war. (…) And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony. The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known."
"Man sieht, ich bin wesentlich antitheatralisch geartet, ich habe gegen das Theater, diese Massen-Kunst par excellence, den tiefen Hohn auf dem Grunde meiner Seele, den jeder Artist heute hat. Erfolg auf dem Theater — damit sinkt man in meiner Achtung bis auf Nimmer-wieder-sehn; Misserfolg — da spitze ich die Ohren und fange an zu achten…"
