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How to approach performance art; or perhaps not . . . The British comedian as a young hopeful.
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From a Scroll to a Book

There is a wonderfully funny video made by Norwegian Television (NRK), about a new book user interacting with medieval technical support.
It’s in Norwegian with sub-titles in both Danish and English.
But go take a look. It must have been hell for early-adopters back in those days of rapid change.
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Mr Joe Blog’s Blog has an interview with yours truly. A little tongue-in-cheek maybe. Maybe not.

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By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas. Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut died Wednesday night in Manhattan. He was 84. Twenty years ago I met him in York when he took a day and a half off his European tour. He was a consistently accurate critical thinker, an influential and hard-working novelist and a great human being with a sense of humour that never failed. If it’s at all possible from where he is, he’ll carry on putting it out.

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For one cannot have talent unless one loves passionately and hates passionately; enthusiasm and contempt are indispensable to anyone wishing to create a work of art; talent belongs to those who are sincere and fanatical, not to those who are indifferent and afraid. J-K Huysmans

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