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The readers of the New York Evening Telegram were told in
1904: “Phony implies that a thing so qualified has no more
substance than a telephone talk with a supposititious friend.”
The folklore of the telephone in song and story has been
augmented in the memoirs of Jack Paar, who writes that his
resentment toward the telephone began with the singing
telegram. He tells how he got a call from a woman who said she
was so lonesome she had been taking a bath three times a day
in hopes that the phone would ring.
James Joyce in Finnegans Wake headlined TELEVISION
KILLS TELEPH0NY IN BROTHERS BROIL, introducing a major
theme in the battle of the technologically extended senses that
has, indeed, been raging through our culture for more than a
decade. With the telephone, there occurs the extension of ear
and voice that is a kind of extrasensory perception. With