Long Versus Short? Discourse or Snippet? Believe It or Nip It?

 

 

 

"People are not (in general) influenced by long books or discourse" the American poet John Jay Chapman wrote in an 1897 essay about Ralph Waldo Emerson, "but by odd fragments of observation which they overhear, sentences or head-lines which they read while turning over a book at random or while waiting for dinner to be announced These are the oracles and orphic words that get lodged in the mind and bend a man's most stubborn will."

 As well as snippets,  wandering thoughts and overheard part- conversation. Of music stratum and lyrics oft unheard. These are the things that would seem to be the living conclusions of you and me.In Life,Love and Liberty.

Above article based on the book: Superbloom by Nicholas Carr. 

With edits and additions. 

( Opinion  and research by Digital Anvil)