Johnson's Rasselas - 250th anniversary

[Terry]

Welles was a one-man marketplace, but unfortunately he had trouble attracting customers.

[Alan Brody]

Yep. I guess that's what he got for trying to be a friendly neighborhood grocery store instead of a supermarket.

"We certainly agree now that verbal literacy is necessary. But a couple of thousand years ago, Socrates actually disagreed. His argument was almost identical to the arguments of people today who object to the Internet, who think that it’s a sorry replacement for real research in a library. In the dialogue with Phaedrus, Socrates worries that writing and reading will actually lead to the student not truly knowing—that once people stop memorizing and start writing and reading, they’re in danger of cultivating the mere appearance of wisdom rather than the real thing." - Martin Scorcese