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"From arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style."

That's an observation about the way using a typewriter changed Friedrich Nietzsche's writing ? and perhaps also his thinking. He himself said: "our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." So what is the computer ? with access to Google ? doing to our minds?

Hey, I asked the question. Pointed at something and asked a question. What more do you want? An aphorism? That would be carrying on to excess, I think.

Full post as published by Althouse on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).