“As the Empire declines, so does culture, literacy, and almost everything else. Ironically, high technology, once thought to be the savior of civilization, has become our Alaric the First, our barbarian invasion. Increasingly, it looks like life in the future will be nasty, brutish and long.”
— Donald Fagen
“Images enter us like liquid light, addictive and mysterious. The process can be heavy and sludge-like, incrementally seeping into our consciousness, or instantaneous like quicksilver, surging and pulsing, crystallizing and brightening our eyes like hard candy. We suck in images with vacuum eyes, magnetic stares powered by the true north of our retinas.”
