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I take a mild and gentle Palmolive bath topic/americana

“What is the role of commercial television in the twentieth century and beyond?”

“In my blackest moods I feel it spells chaos for all of us.”

“How do you get over these moods?” I said.

“I take a mild and gentle Palmolive bath, brush my teeth with Crest, swallow two Sominex tablets, and try…

—p.274 Americana by Don DeLillo
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a television set is an electronic form of packaging topic/americana

“And I have the questions,” I said. “We begin, simply enough, with a man watching television. Quite possibly he is being driven mad, slowly, in stages, program by program, interruption by interruption. Still, he watches. What is there in that box? Why is he watching?”

“The TV set is a package an…

—p.270 by Don DeLillo
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a television set is an electronic form of packaging topic/americana

“And I have the questions,” I said. “We begin, simply enough, with a man watching television. Quite possibly he is being driven mad, slowly, in stages, program by program, interruption by interruption. Still, he watches. What is there in that box? Why is he watching?”

“The TV set is a package an…

—p.270 by Don DeLillo
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maybe it’s selective automation you want topic/americana

“We’re consultants to government and industry,” Wild said finally. “Want to know about production flow systems? Materials handling? Centralized processing and distribution? Automation you know isn’t necessarily the answer. First you study the operation. Then you analyze the system in terms of costs…

—p.264 by Don DeLillo
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I found myself overburdened with parts

Several minutes later we were in bed. An open suitcase slid to the floor. She kept talking about her husband. I hit her and she was quiet. Naked she was even more plain, and the hunger I had expected from her did not show itself. Into her neutrality and silence I directed something like desperation…

—p.261 by Don DeLillo