To touch is human
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Link to the idea of how technology (social media) cannot give us the sense of touch, making it a severe limitation when it comes to fostering deep relationships.....ironically, the recent Covid-19 lockdowns worldwide has seen people turning to social media for a kind of 'contactless contact' which is deemed safe in an environment where social distancing is encouraged, and proximity frowned upon.....
Note the use of an interesting anecdote for an OPENING BANG, ans the use of a Shakespearean quotation (with a witty twist!) as CLOSING BANG....
Touch, it is argued, is the first sense to flower and certainly when we are born, we are often placed naked on our mother's bare chest
Touch is its own kind of glue and, eventually, it develops into a vast unspoken language. We touch to console, to make a point, to flirt, to reassure.
What is a book's worth, after all, if it can't be held close and inhaled? As Susan Orlean wrote evocatively of bookstores in The Library Book: "I loved the crack of a newly flexed spine, and the way the brand-new pages almost felt damp, as if they were wet with creation."
Qn: The book has no place in modern society. Discuss. (Cam. 2010)
Link to the idea of how technology (social media) cannot give us the sense of touch, making it a severe limitation when it comes to fostering deep relationships.....ironically, the recent Covid-19 lockdowns worldwide has seen people turning to social media for a kind of 'contactless contact' which is deemed safe in an environment where social distancing is encouraged, and proximity frowned upon.....
Note the use of an interesting anecdote for an OPENING BANG, ans the use of a Shakespearean quotation (with a witty twist!) as CLOSING BANG....
Touch, it is argued, is the first sense to flower and certainly when we are born, we are often placed naked on our mother's bare chest
Touch is its own kind of glue and, eventually, it develops into a vast unspoken language. We touch to console, to make a point, to flirt, to reassure.
What is a book's worth, after all, if it can't be held close and inhaled? As Susan Orlean wrote evocatively of bookstores in The Library Book: "I loved the crack of a newly flexed spine, and the way the brand-new pages almost felt damp, as if they were wet with creation."
Qn: The book has no place in modern society. Discuss. (Cam. 2010)
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