Radio—Does It Exist?
ATS are, I suppose, among the most sensitive organisms known; which is no doubt why tranquillising drugs are tested on them. Ours jumps at all untoward sounds and is particularly disturbed By continuous sound, high wind or the vacuum cleaner, which makes. it hard to hear what else is going on. They make him as nervous as a kitten. Considering which, he ought to be. equally disturbed by all the odd sounds that come from the radio-Parliament, Kindergarten of the Air, the Goon Show, music by Stravinsky. He ignores them. all. Occasionally as he sleeps near the radio his ears (those semaphores of feeling) give an irritable flick, which might be taken as an expression of opinion; but they’re just as likely to do this if the radio is turned off. The obvious inference is that radio really has no objective existence. We humans think there is such a thing as radio. So, I believe, do cows. But cats know it does not exist, and I have a higher opinion of. the sagacity of cats than of men, or of cows.
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 942, 30 August 1957, Page 31
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186Radio—Does It Exist? New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 942, 30 August 1957, Page 31
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