from Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller." "Villemessant, the founder of Le Figaro, characterized the nature of information in a famous formulation. 'To my readers,' he used to say, 'an attic fire in the Latin Quarter is more important than a revolution in Madrid.'" The essay contains a wonderful critique of "information" as inferior to storytelling. A more recent phrase expressing the same idea is Gil Scott-Heron's "the revolution will not be televised."
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