- Everywhere and at all times, men and women have sought, and duly found, the means of taking a holiday from the reality of their generally dull and often acutely unpleasant existence. A holiday out of space, out of time, in the eternity of sleep or ecstasy, in the heaven or the limbo of visionary phantasy.
- "Anywhere, anywhere out of the world."
- How many of the current ideas of eternity, of heaven, of super-natural states are ultimately derived from the experiences of drug-takers?
- Necessity is the mother of invention
- The age of inventions— and yet nobody has succeeded in inventing a new pleasure.
- But because the machines are modern it does not follow that the entertainments which they reproduce and broadcast are also modern. They are not. All that these new machines do is to make accessible to a larger public the drama, pantomime, and music which have from time immemorial amused the leisures of humanity.
nov 4 2014 ∞
oct 2 2015 +