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Lewis Hyde - Alcohol and poetry (1986)

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But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.

Lewis Hyde

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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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Born: 1945 (age 80)
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