The Telephone and Television Age

  I write this far later than originally intended — maybe two years later. While I believe this piece belongs to the Oxygen Age, it is in such a perfect middle position that it no longer feels right to place it there. Besides, it's a befitting introduction to the Telephone and Television Age. While the main medium of this blog is supposed to be strictly audiovisual, I recognize that writing is often the skeleton of great stories told through motion and sound, and writing was the inspiration for this journey anyway.   A Short Guide to a First Death Dear reader, you may be falling through the big crack in the floor still, or perhaps you have already made acquaintance with death at the bottom of the well. Fear not; in any case two things are inevitable and inescapable: the terribly painful and long process of death, and the grandest of joys and reliefs in the peaceful days that follow it. Now! Do not be hasty and confuse this mercy for a permanent death; it is only a regene...