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The Movie Stars And Matinee Idols Are Put Into The Public Domain By Photography. They Become Dreams That Money Can Buy. They Can Be Bought And Thumbed More Easily Than Public Prostitutes.

In A Cool Medium, The Audience Is An Active Constituent Of The Viewing Or Listening Experience. A Girl Wearing Open-mesh Silk Stockings Or Glasses Is Inherently Cool And Sensual Because The Eye Acts As A Surrogate Hand In Filling In The Low-definition Image Thus Engendered. Which Is Why Boys Make Passes At Girls Who Wear Glasses.

The Fall Or Scrapping Of A Cultural World Puts Us All Into The Same Archetypal Cesspool, Engendering Nostalgia For Earlier Conditions.

During The Second War, The U.s.o. Sent Special Issues Of The Principal American Magazines To The Armed Forces, With The Ads Omitted. The Men Insisted On Having The Ads Back Again. Naturally. The Ads Are By Far The Best Part Of Any Magazine Or Newspaper. More Pains And Thought, More Wit And Art Go Into The Making Of An Ad Than Into Any Prose Feature Of Press Or Magazine. Ads Are News. What Is Wrong With Them Is That They Are Always Good News.

A New Medium Is Never An Addition To An Old One, Nor Does It Leave The Old One In Peace. It Never Ceases To Oppress The Older Media Until It Finds New Shapes And Positions For Them.