max@eros.uucp (Max Hauser) (01/07/88)
Scott Dorsey closes a rec.audio posting with the following excellent quotation, alluding to prescience for telecommunications: > > "To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic > contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a > literary correspondance." -- Joseph Glanvill, 1661 I cannot help but observe the flip side: To engage in literary correspondence -- thoughtful, durable, civilized -- may even have been as natural in past times as merely talking on the telephone is to us. Max Hauser / max@eros.berkeley.edu / ...{!decvax}!ucbvax!eros!max