April 7

If we will use writing to connect to ourselves, I believe we can connect across time and space and distance. I believe in the global village we are making, and I believe that in order to make that village truly habitable, we will need to return to the page. We use the expression “I am paging him” when we speak of trying to get someone’s attention at some busy intersection—a convention, an international airport, a large manufacturing concern. Our world, our global village, is all of these things, and if we want to get one another’s attention, we do need to “page,” in the slightly different sense that we need to write.