Vulgar words in The Civilization of Illiteracy (Page 1)
This book at a glance
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Once language translates a visual sign, it also loads it with conventions characteristic of language-red as in revolution, cardinal red, redneck, etc.-moving it from the realm of its physical determination (wavelength, or frequency of oscillation) to the reality of cultural conventions.
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Sex dreams turn into sex scripts on virtual reality programs within which one can make love to a virtual animal, plant, to oneself, projected into the virtual space and time of less than clear distinctions between what we were told is right and wrong.
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The same holds true for such peculiarities as the way people eat, entertain, dress, make love, and play.
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("A beautiful title," wrote FuretiĀre almost 300 years ago, "is the real pimp of the book.")
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If you live in Hebrew, if you think, dream, make love in Hebrew, sing in Hebrew in the shower, tell lies in Hebrew, you are 'inside'.