“Cervantes confronted typographic man in the figure of Don Quixote.”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 242
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“The typographic lore of school children points to the gap between the scribal and typographic man.”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 103
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), Conclusion : Don Quixote in the Contemporary European Tragi-Comedy
Context: Don Quixote made himself ridiculous; but did he know the most tragic ridicule of all, the inward ridicule, the ridiculousness of a man's self to himself, in the eyes of his own soul? Imagine Don Quixote's battlefield to be his own soul; imagine him to be fighting in his soul to save the Middle Ages from the Renaissance, to preserve the treasure of his infancy; imagine him an inward Don Quixote, with a Sancho at his side, inward and heroic too — and tell me if you find anything comic in the tragedy.
Source: Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast (1987), p. 153-154
“Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.”
Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 245
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 241
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 114
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), Conclusion : Don Quixote in the Contemporary European Tragi-Comedy
The Crystal Spirit : A Study of George Orwell (1966), Ch. I : The Man I Remembered, p. 3
Context: Orwell can only be understood as an essentially quixotic man. … He defended, passionately and as a matter of principle, unpopular causes. Often without regard to reason he would strike out against anything which offended his conceptions of right, justice and decency, yet, as many who crossed lances with him had reason to know, he could be a very chivalrous opponent, impelled by a sense of fair play that would lead to public recantation of accusations he had eventually decided were unfair. In his own way he was a man of the left, but he attacked its holy images as fervently as he did those of the right. And however much he might on occasion find himself in uneasy and temporary alliance with others, he was — in the end — as much a man in isolation as Don Quixote. His was the isolation of every man who seeks the truth diligently, no matter how unpleasant its implications may be to others or even to himself.
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography