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characteristics—were quite naturally taken over by the poets
after Baudelaire in order to evoke an inclusive awareness. Our
ordinary newspaper page today is not only symbolist and
surrealist in an avant-garde way , but it was the earlier
inspiration of symbolism and surrealism in art and poetry, as
anybody can discover by reading Flaubert or Rimbaud.
Approached as newspaper form, any part of Joyce’s Ulysses or
any poem of T. S. Eliot’s before the Quartets is more readily
enjoyed. Such, however, is the austere continuity of book
culture that it scorns to notice these liaisons dangereuses
among the media, especially the scandalous affairs of the
book-page with electronic creatures from the other side of the
linotype.
In view of the inveterate concern of the press with
cleansing by publicity, it may be well to ask if it does not set up