“wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”
John Irving (1942) American novelist and screenwriter
“Wherever I am, people always know
as if a spotlight were on me with its glow.”
— Ludovico Ariosto, book Orlando Furioso
Ch'ovunque io vada o stia,
Mi fa sempre apparir la luce mia.
Canto XXIII, stanza 36 (tr. D. R. Slavitt)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
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