Xavier University Sydney

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    Surely one’s own—farewell to life is preferable to that demanded by the law.
    Robert Tusker, and Michael Curtiz. Dr. Xavier (Lionel Atwill)

    One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.
    Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)

    A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
    O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862–1910)