We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music....
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