Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/09022_Field_TCGG T787.txt

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     of its existence, the human consciousness finds itself
     reduced to existence without duration. It is always of the
     present moment. (95)

     This is Macbeth’s world of “Tomorrow and tomorrow and
tomorrow.” This, says Poulet, is the experience of modern man,
and Montaigne, in his Essays , was the first to depict it. He set
out to snapshot his own mind in the act of reading and
reflection by way of la peinture de la pensée . In this respect
Montaigne more than anybody else, perhaps, carried out the
lesson of print as by a kind of applied knowledge. He bred up a
great race of self-portrayers by means of the mental snapshot,
of the sequence of the arrested and isolated moments of
experience which anticipate the cinema: “At first, on this island
of the moment which isolates him but which he fills with his
presence, man still keeps something of the joy he experienced