Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text … - Caroline Knapp

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I used to breed poodles. I liked them because they were fluffy and so cute - and honestly, they make a lot of money when you sell them!

Caroline Knapp

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.

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