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Endow the Living -- with the Tears -- You squander on the Dead, And They were Men and Women -- now, Around Your Fireside -- Instead of Passive Creatures, Denied the Cherishing Till They -- the Cherishing deny -- With Death's Ethereal Scorn -- - Emily Dickinson We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning. -- Baudrillard.Simulacra and Simulation (found in the Educational Technology Journal )

The mob within the heart Police cannot suppress The riot given at the first Is authorized as peace Uncertified of scene Or signified of sound But growing like a hurricane In a congenial ground - Emily Dickinson (1745) from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas H. Johnson 1960

1004 There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World. - Emily Dickinson (1865)