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We Live In A World Ruled By Fictions Of Every Kind - Mass Merchandising, Advertising, Politics Conducted As A Branch Of Advertising, The Instant Translation Of Science And Technology Into Popular Imagery, The Increasing Blurring And Intermingling Of Identities Within The Realm Of Consumer Goods, The Preempting Of Any Free Or Original Imaginative Response To Experience By The Television Screen. We Live Inside An Enormous Novel.

In His Mind Vaughan Saw The Whole World Dying In A Simultaneous Automobile Disaster, Millions Of Vehicles Hurled Together In A Terminal Congress Of Spurting Loins And Engine Coolant.

A Kind Of Banalization Of Celebrity Has Occurred: We Are Now Offered An Instant, Ready-to-mix Fame As Nutritious As Packet Soup.

Elaborate Burial Customs Are A Sure Sign Of Decadence.

The Entertainment Medium Of Film Is Particularly Tuned To The Present Imaginations Of People At Large. A Lot Of Fiction Is Intensely Nostalgic.