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microscopic
«The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?»
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
(Author)
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«My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.»
«The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contacts painful and revolting»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
eye contact, intercellular, microscopic
«Samantha: Like it?s my fault! I shouldn't be punished for not having kids. I should be rewarded! Since when did kids become the Get Out of Cancer Free card? He's basically saying that I'm a whore who deserves chemo!!Carrie: No, I...I don't think that's what he was saying.Miranda: What I don't understand is.. if they got it all, why do you need chemo?Samantha: Because he's an asshole. Carrie: Evidently there could be something microscopic.Samantha: Like his dick. Carrie: Excuse me, do you have cancer or Turrets?»