...daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of the;r occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident,...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have...

...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have...

...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have...

...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have...

...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have...

...great national events which are daily taking place [such as the war with France], and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have...

...effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have...

...effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies.108 The historical situation analyzed by The Waste Land might seem an exacerbated version...

...discriminating powers of the mind ... to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor'. One of these causes is 'the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies', that is, the first forms of mass culture (1961 :735). However, it is with Baudelaire and Sue that the...

...are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of the occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident,...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. . . . Reflecting upon the magnitude of the general evil, I should be oppressed with no dishonorable...