"Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote."
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E. B. White, "Removal" (July 1938) from One Man's Meat (1942)
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