05-18-2018, 11:17 AM
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#4009 (permalink)
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...here to hear...
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: He lives on Love Street
Posts: 4,444
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And if you want a taste of his writing, here is the opening paragraph of The Painted Word:-
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People don't read the morning paper, Marshall McLuhan once said, they slip into it like a warm bath. Too true, Marshall! Imagine being in New York City on the morning of Sunday, April 28, 1974, like I was, slipping into that great public bath, that vat, that spa, that regional physio-therapy tank, that White Sulphur Springs, that Marienbad, that Ganges, that River Jordan for a million souls which is the Sunday New York Times. Soon I was submerged, weightless, suspended in the tepid depths of the thing, in Arts & Leisure, Section 2, page 19, in a perfect state of sensory deprivation when all at once an extraordinary thing happened: I noticed something!
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If you're wondering what it was that he noticed, then buy the book you cheap b*stards. 
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