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Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.
From A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of
men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't
grab onto.
From Girl with Curious Hair
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.
shall I spend much of your time pointing out the degree to which televisual values influence the contemporary mood of jaded weltschmerz, self-mocking materialism, blank indifference, and the delusion that cynicism and naïveté are mutually exclusive?
From A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
And with Letterman, Miller, Shandling, and Leno’s battery of hip, sardonic, this-is-
just-TV schticks, the circle back to the days of “We’ve just got to get Miss Ball on our show, Bud” has closed and come spiral, television’s power to jettison connection and castrate protest fueled by the very ironic
postmodern self-consciousness it had first helped fashion.
From E Unibus Pluram
I’d tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear.
Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.
From A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.
From A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of
men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't
grab onto.
From Girl with Curious Hair
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.
shall I spend much of your time pointing out the degree to which televisual values influence the contemporary mood of jaded weltschmerz, self-mocking materialism, blank indifference, and the delusion that cynicism and naïveté are mutually exclusive?
From A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
And with Letterman, Miller, Shandling, and Leno’s battery of hip, sardonic, this-is-
just-TV schticks, the circle back to the days of “We’ve just got to get Miss Ball on our show, Bud” has closed and come spiral, television’s power to jettison connection and castrate protest fueled by the very ironic
postmodern self-consciousness it had first helped fashion.
From E Unibus Pluram
I’d tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear.
Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.
From A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.
From A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of
men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't
grab onto.
From Girl with Curious Hair
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.
shall I spend much of your time pointing out the degree to which televisual values influence the contemporary mood of jaded weltschmerz, self-mocking materialism, blank indifference, and the delusion that cynicism and naïveté are mutually exclusive?
From A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
And with Letterman, Miller, Shandling, and Leno’s battery of hip, sardonic, this-is-
just-TV schticks, the circle back to the days of “We’ve just got to get Miss Ball on our show, Bud” has closed and come spiral, television’s power to jettison connection and castrate protest fueled by the very ironic
postmodern self-consciousness it had first helped fashion.
From E Unibus Pluram
I’d tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear.
Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.
From A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments