In Praise of Digests
TRE modern mind will only act Upon a pre-digested fact: It categorically refuses To waste its choice cerebral juices On the wisdom of the ages In more than 70 close-clipped pages. BY a kind of boa-constriction It reduces fact and fiction Until a paragraph of patter Gives the guts of any matter, And the tyro stands in awe Before a one word line by Shaw. HE modern mind is so streamlined It leaves no waste at all behind; But in a column it will take The entrails out of Chiang Kai-Shek, And in four lines by Ogden Nash Turn Hiroshima into ash. ; [RE modern mind belongs, I guess, To men who will not-retrogress; But who, with passionate devotion, Will follow up the latest notion, Discarding bulk as antiquated Now books and brains are dehydrated.
Anton
Vogt
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 351, 15 March 1946, Page 13
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140In Praise of Digests New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 351, 15 March 1946, Page 13
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