Two Hundred Seventy-Six

Posted on October 3, 2015 by John Swinburn

If we had no television, no electric lights, no natural gas, no books, no internet, and no battery-powered devices awash in music, night-time would be a radically different experience from the way it is now. We’d watch the stars and, perhaps, imagine giant beings scampering across the night sky. Our minds would have more space for ideas. We’d spend our time thinking. Entertainment would be something we do for ourselves, rather than someone else doing it to us.

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2 Responses to Two Hundred Seventy-Six

  1. John Swinburn says:
    October 3, 2015 at 4:24 pm

    Ah, thank you my friend. You are such a generous spirit!

  2. jserolf says:
    October 3, 2015 at 3:30 pm

    I love this line of yours: “We’d watch the stars and, perhaps, imagine giant beings scampering across the night sky.”

    But then I imagine you and many around some fire, and some voice would say, “John, speak us a story.” And you would.

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