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The silent pictures were immediately acceptable across
language barriers as the talkies were not. Radio teamed up with
film to give us the talkie and to carry us further on our present
reverse course of implosion or reintegration after the
mechanical age of explosion and expansion. The extreme form
of this implosion or contraction is the image of the astronaut
locked into his wee bit of wraparound space. Far from enlarging
our world, he is announcing its contraction to village size. The
rocket and the space capsule are ending the rule of the wheel
and the machine, as much as did the wire services, radio, and
TV.
We may now consider a further instance of the film’s
influence in a most conclusive aspect. In modern literature
there is probably no more celebrated technique than that of
the stream of consciousness or interior monologue. Whether in