All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather together then, in that hot and dismal corridor. I heard a rushing sound in my head and felt a pressure in my breast, like floodwaters rising behind a flimsy dike. Before I knew I did it, the soup bowl was rising in my hand as if elevated by some supernatural force. Then, its yellow-gray contents were running down the nurse's pudgy face.
What won't work - what can't work - is to act like the last years never happened, and that the survival of the [mass media] industry will be found by hiding content behind walled gardens. Instead of sticking their finger in the dike, trying to hold back the flow of innovation, companies need to ride the rapids of progress and seize the opportunities it provides.
Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.
I never know what all of these guys are thinking, but Marco Rubio sounded desperate, like, We`ve got a leak in the dike, we got to stop this thing.
