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Judging by the following quotations, guess which year this book came out.
"Nineteenth-century man with his horses, dogs, cars, slow motion. Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending."
"Life becomes one big pratfall...everything bang, boff, and wow!...More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less."
"The bigger your market, the less you handle controversy."
"If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none."
The word 'intellectual,' of course, [becomes] the swear word.
"I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other."
"Wasn't there a joke about the wife who talked so much on the telephone that her desperate husband ran out to the nearest store and telephoned her to ask what was for dinner?"
"We never ask questions, or at least most don't; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing...That's not social to me at all. It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not."
"Cram them full of non-combustable data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up. That way lies melancholy."
"Give them everything to do with automatic reflex."
The answer tomorrow.
Judging by the following quotations, guess which year this book came out.
"Nineteenth-century man with his horses, dogs, cars, slow motion. Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending."
"Life becomes one big pratfall...everything bang, boff, and wow!...More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less."
"The bigger your market, the less you handle controversy."
"If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none."
The word 'intellectual,' of course, [becomes] the swear word.
"I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other."
"Wasn't there a joke about the wife who talked so much on the telephone that her desperate husband ran out to the nearest store and telephoned her to ask what was for dinner?"
"We never ask questions, or at least most don't; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing...That's not social to me at all. It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not."
"Cram them full of non-combustable data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up. That way lies melancholy."
"Give them everything to do with automatic reflex."
The answer tomorrow.