characteristics—were quite naturally taken over by the poets 
after Baudelaire in order to evoke an inclusive awareness. Our 
ordinary newspaper page today is not only symbolist and 
surrealist in an avant-garde way , but it was the earlier 
inspiration  of symbolism and surrealism in art and poetry, as 
anybody can discover by reading Flaubert or Rimbaud. 
Approached as newspaper form, any part of Joyce’s Ulysses  or 
any poem of T. S. Eliot’s before the Quartets  is more readily 
enjoyed. Such, however, is the austere continuity of book 
culture that it scorns to notice these liaisons dangereuses  
among the media, especially the scandalous affairs of the 
book-page with electronic creatures from the other side of the 
linotype.

     In view of the inveterate concern of the press with 
cleansing by publicity, it may be well to ask if it does not set up