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Changing minds
It’s too late now, of course, to draw back from the digital revolution. What has been let loose can no longer be retracted. I wonder, though, what you would be prepared to live without? I think I could survive quite happily without Google and certainly without Twitter. But if you threatened to take away my radio(s) I would kick and shout. Only on Sunday, after a few days’ withdrawal, I switched on the radio while brushing my teeth to find myself drawn in by Mark Tully and his unmissable Something Understood programme (Radio 4). This week’s theme was ‘Longing for the Sea’, and Tully spoke with the Welsh poet, Gwyneth Lewis, who spent two years at sea visiting all the ports that had once received coal from Cardiff. She talked about the experience of being ‘spooked’, when suddenly for no reason, on a perfect, clear day, she and her husband had to turn back. She later understood that it was because they suddenly knew they were just about to leave completely the reach of land and be forced to rely entirely on their own efforts. A moment. A conversation. An absolute connection.
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