Vogue Gorilla with Miss Harper, 1972 by Eduardo Paolozzi (1924–2005)
To insist on the miraculous is to deny to the machine at least some of its claims on us, to assert the limited wish that living things, earthly and otherwise, may on occasion become Bad and Big enough to take part in transcendent doings. By this theory, for example, King Kong (?-1933) becomes your classic Luddite saint. The final dialogue in the movie, you recall, goes: ”Well, the airplanes got him.” ”No . . . it was Beauty killed the Beast.”
–Thomas Pynchon, “Is It O.K. To Be a Luddite?”
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