your reader is captive inside those covers, but as novelist 
     you have to imagine the satisfaction he’s getting. Now, in 
     the theatre—well, I used to drop in during both 
     productions of Pal Joey and watch, not imagine, the 
     people enjoy it. I’d willingly start my next novel—about a 
     small town—right now, but I need the diversion of a play.

     In our age artists are able to mix their media diet as easily 
as their book diet. A poet like Yeats made the fullest use of oral 
peasant culture in creating his literary effects. Quite early, Eliot 
made a great impact by the careful use of jazz and film form. 
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock  gets much of its power 
from an interpenetration of film form and jazz idiom. But this 
mix reached its greatest power in The Waste Land  and Sweeney  
Agonistes . Prufrock  uses not only film form but the film theme 
of Charlie Chaplin, as did James Joyce in Ulysses . Joyce’s Bloom