"Our taverns and our metropolitan streets, our railroad stations and our
factories appeared to taverns licked up hopelessly. Then came the film and
burst the prison-world asunder by the dynamite of the tenth of a second, so
that now, in the midst of its far-flung ruins and debris, we calmly and
adventurously go traveling."
-Walter Benjamin, quoted in Steven Poole, Trigger Happy (New York: Arcade
Publishing, 2000), 89. (recorded 12/25/2002)