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the nerves and viscera of the young. To live and experience
anything is to translate its direct impact into many indirect
forms of awareness. We provided the young with a shrill and
raucous asphalt jungle, beside which any tropical animal jungle
was as quiet and tame as a rabbit hutch. We called this
normal. We paid people to keep it at the highest pitch of
intensity because it paid well. When the entertainment
industries tried to provide a reasonable facsimile of the ordinary
city vehemence, eyebrows were raised.
It was Al Capp who discovered that until TV, at least, any
degree of Scragg mayhem or Phogbound morality was accepted
as funny. He didn’t think it was funny. He put in his strip just
exactly what he saw around him. But our trained incapacity to
relate one situation to another enabled his sardonic realism to
be mistaken for humor. The more he showed the capacity of