Paul Valéry, Aesthetics, “The Conquest of Ubiquity, ” translated by Ralph Manheim, (Pantheon Books: 1964), p. 225.
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Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into
our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so
we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and
disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.