"Ong"-liners

To live and to understand fully, we need not only proximity but also distance (81)

Writing heightens conciousness (81)

technology can enrich the human psyche, enlarge the human spirit, intensify its interior life (82)

everyone lives each day in a frame of abstract computed time (96)

Texts assimilate utterance to the human body (99)

the alphabet, the ruthlessly efficient reducer of sound to space (99)

The word in its natural, oral habit is part of a real, existential space (100)

Writing is a solipsistic operation (100)

'the writer's audience is always fiction' (100)