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A thousand images are impressed daily upon the screen of his consciousness, but they are as fleeting as moving pictures in a cinema theatre.
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gutenberg.orgJames Beck: “A thousand images are impressed daily upon the screen of his consciousness, but they are as fleeting as moving pictures…”
Editor's note · Context
Beck likens the fleeting nature of modern images to the transience of cinema.
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