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In the ancient world and in medieval times, the most
popular of all stories were those dealing with The Falls of
Princes . With the coming of the very hot print medium, the
preference changed to a rising rhythm and to tales of success
and sudden elevation in the world. It seemed possible to
achieve anything by the new typographic method of minute,
uniform segmentation of problems. It was by this method,
eventually, that film was made. Film was, as a form, the final
fulfillment of the great potential of typographic fragmentation.
But the electric implosion has now reversed the entire process
of expansion by fragmentation. Electricity has brought back
the cool, mosaic world of implosion, equilibrium, and stasis. In
our electric age, the one-way expansion of the berserk
individual on his way to the top now appears as a gruesome
image of trampled lives and disrupted harmonies. Such is the
subliminal message of the TV mosaic with its total field of