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participation in creativity. Nevertheless, even today the
homogenized consumer complains when asked to participate in
creating or completing an abstract poem or painting or
structure of any kind. Yet Poe knew even then that
participation in depth followed at once from the telegraph
mosaic. The more lineal and literal-minded of the literary brains
“just couldn’t see it.” They still can’t see it. They prefer not to
participate in the creative process. They have accommodated
themselves to the completed packages, in prose and verse and
in the plastic arts. It is these people who must confront, in
every classroom in the land, students who have accommodated
themselves to the tactile and nonpictorial modes of symbolist
and mythic structures, thanks to the TV image.

     Life  magazine for August 10, 1962, had a feature on
how “Too Many Subteens Grow Up Too Soon and Too Fast.”