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and every created adornment that grows up out of it, and
spreads its foliage and blossoms to the sun will seem
reality, not inventions. You will not be likely to go astray;
your compass of fact is there to keep you on the right
course.

Mention instances (in this article) where I think the
author was imagining. Others where he built upon a solid
and actually lived basis of fact.

All crimes should be punished with humiliations—pub-
lic exposure in ridiculous and grotesque situations—and
never in any other way. Death makes a hero of the villain,
and he is envied by some spectators and by imitators.

In the note that follows there is a suggestion
of the radio, or at least of its various uses, though
he had in mind the phonograph, then a recent
invention.

Neither printed newspapers nor books left—except as
curiosities. Salacious daily news furnished in a whisper to
any that want it. But the character of each sort of news
is marked by signs, indicating "pure," "hellish/' etc.

And now we have his prediction of television:

Portraits and pictures transferred by light accompany
everything. The phonograph goes to church, conducts
family worship, etc. teaches foreign languages. Pops the
question.

Jean, age seven: "He cried so hard, but I gave him my
little finger, and he quieted right down—though all he got
was just his own juice."

To Remember

Monday Midnight, March 26, 1888. Delmonico's—sup-
per to Irving and Miss Terry—by Daly.

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