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Peel dramatizes the boredom through the juxtaposition of images, and in so doing he forces the reader
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman • 2 highlights
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Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation
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It seems distant now, but once upon a time the Internet was going to save us from the menace of TV. Since the late fifties, TV has had a special role, both as the country’s dominant medium, in audience and influence, and as a bête noire for a certain strain of American intellectuals, who view it as the root of all evil. In “Amusing Ourselves to... See more
Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
“books were no longer the sacred touchstones of any culture, any society, and surely not of the one in which he and Paola lived. When had he last heard a reference to a book as part of normal conversation? When had he last heard a character from a book–much less from a classic–used as a measure of good or bad for human behaviour? Harry Potter had... See more