When a subject is highly controversial ... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opin...ion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!... The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails lea...ving one's ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one's life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one's "real" life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Back now to autumn, leaving the ended husk Of summer that brought them here for Show Saturday... The men with hunters, dog-breeding wool-defined women, Children all saddle-swank, mugfaced middleaged wives Glaring at jellies, husbands on leave from the garden Watchful as weasels, car-tuning curt-haired sons Back now, all of them, to their local lives....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you.... It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, beca...use one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »