"What is the digital equivalent of lovely … What are the digits that encode beauty, the..."

"What is the digital equivalent of lovely … What are the digits that encode beauty, the number-fingers that enclose, transform, transmit, decode, and somehow, in the process, fail to trap or choke the soul of it. Not because of the technology but in spite of it, beauty, that ghost, that treasure, passes undiminished through the new machines."

- Salman Rushdie, fury (via jayarrarr)