Comments on: On Agents https://booksquare.com/on-agents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=on-agents Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:59:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Perry Brass https://booksquare.com/on-agents/#comment-168748 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:59:33 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=2969#comment-168748 I keep hoping we’ll (somehow) have a return to (somewhat) educated people who understand the power of words; that is, that language is the software of the brain and that every single thing we do in life depends on it, in fact, every cell in our bodies uses language in some way. Their way. Now that we have got rid of the Bushites (for the time being), maybe words have a chance again, as opposed to, say, the huge garbage-flow of uncommented images that flood us every day, confusing most people and making them less able to communicate in even the most basic way.
Publishing as a big ticket, big corp-activity, was hooked on the garbage-flow of images (one picture being worth no words), and is now in its late-dinosaur period. So we will see what lasts next.
Or, as they say, “Words are cheap.” That is why it’s going to take this trillion dollar war in Iraq-Afghanistan to result in a good half hour of talk.

Perry Brass,
author of Carnal Sacraments, A Historical Novel of the Future.

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