uber:
personally, i think the analytic question might end up involving as much suburban as rural america.
and in that, it may well turn out that people had, if anything, underestimated the power of television in shaping views of the world in both spaces.
maybe. the last might be too simple.
i keep thinking of robert musil's "man without qualities" which is about the hapsburg empire slipping into fiasco while the population dances in its habitual circles, unable and unwilling to look.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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