VIRTUAL-+-+-+-+-REALITY.

“What you don’t know can’t hurt you”. Do we care?

Virtual Letters. < > John Donne.

Virtual Light. < > Claude Monet.

Virtual Calculation. < > Pythagoras.

Virtual Communication. < > Lao Tse.

Virtual Touch. < > Michaelangelo Buonarotti.

Virtual Emotion. < > Frederic Chopin.

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Virtual Reality

We should mourn the end of stylus and clay,

Papyrus and ink, paper and pen.

Print and reading have had their day,

Books are fading away.

All now is light, and bits, and bots,

Silica steals the thinking mind.

How can the signals then be sought

Amongst the sands of time?

Patricia Andrews

7/3/2025