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I don’t just like Ike; I love him. I think he’s the guy of guys, I think he’s uniquely American, and I’m sorry we’re not going to have him anymore.

— George W. S. Trow My Pilgrim’s Progress (1999)

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The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.

Within the Context of No Context (1980)

The fact is that fifty percent of our national mind is a giant, explosive blowup of a Xerox of a 1970s rock-and-roll press list.

My Pilgrim’s Progress (1999)

Celebrities have an intimate life and a life in the grid of two hundred million. For them, there is no distance between the two grids of American life. Of all Americans, only they are complete.

Within the Context of No Context (1980)

USA Today is back-formed from the Assumed Dominant Mind of television.

My Pilgrim’s Progress (1999)

The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

Within the Context of No Context (1980)

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