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letters.” He could abandon his patron and approach the large
homogenized public of a market society in a consistent and
complacent role. So that with both sight and sound given
homogeneous treatment, the writer was able to approach the
mass public. What he had to offer the public was equally a
homogenized body of common experience such as the movie
finally took over from the novel. Dr. Johnson devoted his
Rambler no. 4 (March 31, 1750) to this theme:
The works of fiction, with which the present
generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as
exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents
that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions
and qualities which are really to be found in conversing
with mankind.