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can bring on psychic stress that may be much worse. Western
specialist technology transferred to the Arab world in late
Roman times released a furious discharge of tribal energy.
The somewhat devious means of diagnosis that have to
be used to pin down the actual form and impact of a new
medium are not unlike those indicated in detective fiction by
Peter Cheyney. In You Can’t Keep the Change (Collins, London,
1956) he wrote:
A case to Callaghan was merely a collection of
people, some of whom,—all of whom—were giving
incorrect information, or telling lies, because
circumstances either forced them or led them into the
process.
But the fact that they had to tell lies; had to give