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"The television screen has throughout the world replaced, or is fast replacing: oral poetry; old wives'
tales; children's story-acting games and verbal lore; lullabies; 'playing the sevens'; political argument;
the reading of books too difficult for the reader, yet somehow read; tales of 'when-I-was-your-age' told by
parents and grandparents to children, linking them to their own past; singing in parts; memorization of
poetry; the oral transmitting of skills and remedies; reading aloud; recitation; both community and
solitude...
"People are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle
flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting
incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a
drunk are to responsible speech."
-Adrienne Rich
From On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978.
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