Comments on: One Service For Every Screen http://snarkmarket.com/2009/3728 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Howard Weaver http://snarkmarket.com/2009/3728/comment-page-1#comment-6506 Howard Weaver Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:37:48 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=3728#comment-6506 Unavoidably reminded of this: ... all mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another. John Donne "Devotions upon Emergent Occasions" (1623), XVII: Nunc Lento Sonitu Dic*nt,Morieris. Unavoidably reminded of this:

… all mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God’s hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another.

John Donne
“Devotions upon Emergent Occasions” (1623), XVII:
Nunc Lento Sonitu Dic*nt,Morieris.

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