…gods were all technologists. And these gods were so potent that they could only be confronted in the shield of art, a la Perseus, that if you wanted to confront these new powers, these emperors, new clothes, these vast new environments, you had to put on…

…No spokes, no spokes, mind you, and it's all square. A square wheel without spokes, namely the mirror of art, the shield of Perseus, the thing which enables us to carve off the head of the gorgon of new technologies. Fun for all at Finnegan's Wake. The…

…gods were all technologies. And these gods were so potent that they could only be confronted in the shield of art, a la Perseus, that if you wanted to confront these new powers, these emperors, new clothes, these vast new environments, you had to put on…

…new. There seems to be some deep-rooted human instinct which says, never look at the gorgon. Always borrow the mirror of Perseus before you dare to look at the gorgon. Well, now, in our very rapidly changing environment, where one technology succeeds…