As we sped away from the city I noticed that the person beside me was watching an ancient Australian film starring a teenage Nicole Kidman. I asked him, after a while, what it was like to watch the mini-DVD player. He said "It's great. The batteries last the entire journey home".
Welcome, I thought, to the age of abstraction...
Some essays below were developed around the Adelaide Festival of Ideas forums in 2005. Over 2006 the essays and ideas are being developed as an online book.
Abstract v. 1542 1. To withdraw, take away; to take away secretly, to purloin. 1542 2. To draw off; disengage from. 1557 To divert. 3. To withdraw oneself, to retire from. 1671 4. To separate in mental conception; to consider apart from the concrete. 1612
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