<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425584" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Minitel after William Shakespeare Jacques Seven Ages of Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All their world's a page, <br>and all the players minitel-mad players, <br>they have their résumés, their pseudonyms, <br>each actor for a time plays many parts, <br>his acts taking seven stages. At first equipment, <br>fresh ordered from the Poste, in welcome arms.<br>And then the neophyte with his instructions<br>and wide-eyed eager face, tapping the code<br>so willingly to screen. And then the practice, <br>with SUITE, ENVOI, RETOUR and REPETITION<br>colliding in his brain with mistress' eyebrow, <br>the fantasies and fictions of the game.<br>Then the user, sudden and quick to answer; <br>seeking ever new experience<br>even in deception's mouth. And then the addict<br>dialling sans respite 3-6-1-5.<br>With weary eyes ere telephones are cut, <br>full of wise ways and easy answerings.<br>And so he plays his part. The sixth stage shifts<br>into the bored and blasé demi-loon, <br>with carnet for his prose, spare telephone at side, <br>his coins once saved a-waste, the world too wide<br>for his shrunk purse, and his high manly hopes<br>turned against his longings, imagination<br>canting, all at sea. Last stage of all<br>that ends this strange eventful history<br>is deconnection and mere oblivion, <br>sans phone, sans sous, sans job, sans everything.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(1 June 1987)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425584" data-title="Minitel after William Shakespeare Jacques Seven Ages of Man de Jonathan Robin" data-description="All their world's a page, and all the players minitel-mad players, they have their résumés, their pseudonyms, each actor for a time plays many parts, his acts taking seven stages. At first equipment, fresh ordered from the Poste, in wel..."></div> </div> </div>

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