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Werner Herzog ponders the poetry of the Internet

Three monks a-tweeting: Lo and Behold explores our Internet fixation

BEFORE THE INTERNET WAS JUST A PART OF EVERYDAY life—before it became a place to buy everything from books to jeans to roach killer, before it became a town hall where people could reconnect with old classmates and angry fanboys could vent their spleen, before it became a one-stop source for news, weather, sports and just about every useless factoid

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