Future Cells

* “It will soon be possible, for instance, for a business man in New York to dictate instructions and have them appear instantly in type in London or elsewhere. He will be able to call up from his desk and talk with any telephone subscriber in the world. It will only be necessary to carry an inexpensive instrument not bigger than a watch, which will enable its bearer to hear anywhere on sea or land for distances of thousands of miles. One may listen or transmit speech or song to the uttermost parts of the world.” NICOLA TESLA 1909

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Naked City

“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.” Orson Welles (Harry Lime in The Third Man, 1949)

HARD-BOILED: GREAT LINES FROM CLASSIC NOIR FILMS, by Peggy Thompson and Saeko Usukawa

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Three Can’t Dance

JONI & BOB & PHILIP

* “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick”

to be published in 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. NY Times

* “Everything about Bob (Dylan) is a deception.”

Joni Mitchell on their relationship: “we’re like night and day.” LA Times

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