The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture by Brian Dear

Author:Brian Dear [Dear, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101871553
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2017-11-14T05:00:00+00:00

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The Zoo

This room is never anything o’clock. Minutes slip through it like a thief in gloves. Hours fail even to raise the dust. Outside, deadlines expire. Buzzers erupt. Deals build to their frenzied conclusions. But in this chamber, now and forever combine. This room lingers on the perpetual pitch of here. Its low local twilight outlasts the day’s politics. It hangs fixed, between discovery and invention. It floats in pure potential, a strongbox in the inviolate vault. Time does not keep to these parts, nor do these parts keep time. Time is too straight a line, too limiting. The comic tumbling act of causality never reaches this far. This room spreads under the stilled clock. Only when you step back into the corridor does now revive. Only escaped, beneath the falling sky.

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