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“ ”popular culture is where we go to talk to and agree with one another; to simplify ourselves; to find our herd. It’s like going to the Automat to buy an emotion. The thrills are cheap and the payoffs predictable and, after a while, the repetition is a bummer. Whereas books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great art transfigures. And when we go back to it, it’s full of even more surprises. We get older; it gets smarter.
About John Leonard
John Leonard (February 25 1939 – November 5 2008) was an American literary, TV, film and cultural critic.
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It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.
Some evidence suggests they may have come up from some of those holes through the earth,
"the space station show that even small particles of matter will group together when in total weightlessness. Supporting the fact that it is possible to have gravity on the inside and outside of a hollow planet, holding people to the land mass that is between the inside and outside. Seismic testing has been done confirming this hollow earth theory is possible. Oceanographic Geology, when studied closely, shows the earth is expanding in size, and has been doing so for a long time. Why don't we know this theory? The answer should be obvious. "They" don't want us to know. Whomever controls this society doesn't want us to be aware of certain facts that show us updated versions of the world around us. They don't want people to discover we may not be the only civilization here, and that it may be possible"