"Hello. It Is Christmas Time And I Am Sitting Here By My TV. I've Been Watching It Very Much Because

"Hello. It is Christmas time and I am sitting here by my TV. I've been watching it very much because I am on holiday. [...] But now I am curious. I've switched the TV off and now I want to see how it operates, how it can put me into all those weird situations. So, it's about time... See. This is what it looks like. [...] I remember being very scared of it, because an Icelandic poet told me that not like in cinemas where the thing that, that throws the picture from it just sends light from it, but this is different, this is, is millions of little screens who, who, send, uh, light, some sort of electrical light, I'm not really sure, but because there are so many of them, so you are watching many, many frames when you are watching TV, you are very, very busy all the time to, to, calculate, and put it all together into one picture. And then because you're so busy doing that you don't watch very carefully what the program you're watching is really about, you become hypnotized, so all that's on TV goes directly into your brain. And you stop judging if it's right or not. So you just swallow and swallow. This is what an Icelandic poet told me once, and I became so scared of television. [...] But later on, when I got my Danish book on television, I stopped being afraid, because I read the truth, which is much better. You shouldn't let poets lie to you."

Björk talking about her television during the break of a televised concert.

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