Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

My father was a forest entomologist, which means he was aware that spraying forests for spruce budworm was counterproductive in that it didn't really work, and it killed everything else in the forests, and it wasn't good for the people who were exposed to it, either. So he was an early proponent of not doing that, but, of course, nobody listened.

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.

Potential has a shelf life.

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.