If It Works, It's Obsolete.

Today It Is Not The Classroom Nor The Classics Which Are The Repositories Of Models Of Eloquence, But The Ad Agencies.

We Have Be-come Irrevocably Involved With, And Responsible For, Each Other.

For Tribal Man, Space Was The Uncontrollable Mystery. For Technological Man It Is Time That Occupies The Same Role.

Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce Specifies The Tower Of Babel As The Tower Of Sleep, That Is, The Tower Of The Witless Assumption, Or What Bacon Calls The Reign Of The Idols.

The Tv Generation Is Postliterate And Retribalized. It Seeks By Violence To Scrub The Old Private Image And To Merge In A New Tribal Identity, Like Any Corporate Executive.