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“I go my way with the assurance of a somnambulist.” His
victims and his critics have been equally somnambulistic. They
danced entranced to the tribal drum of radio that extended
their central nervous system to create depth involvement for
everybody. “I live right inside radio when I listen. I more easily
lose myself in radio than in a book,” said a voice from a radio
poll. The power of radio to involve people in depth is manifested
in its use during homework by youngsters and by many other
people who carry transistor sets in order to provide a private
world for themselves amidst crowds. There is a little poem by
the German dramatist Berthold Brecht:
You little box, held to me when escaping
So that your valves should not break,
Carried from house to ship from ship to train,
So that my enemies might go on talking to me