Jonathan Lethem Quotes

Did I Read The New Yorker? This Question Had A Dangerous Urgency. It Wasn't Any One Writer Or Article He Was Worried About, But The Font. The Meaning Embedded, At A Preconscious Level, By The Look Of The Magazine; The Seal, As He Described It, That The Typography And Layout Put On Dialectical Thought. According To Perkus, To Read The New Yorker Was To Find That You Always Already Agreed, Not With The New Yorker But, Much More Dismayingly, With Yourself. I Tried Hard To Understand. Apparently Here Was The Paranoia Susan Eldred Had Warned Me Of: The New Yorker's Font Was Controlling, Perhaps Assailing, Perkus Tooth's Mind. To Defend Himself He Frequently Retyped Their Articles And Printed Them Out In Simple Courier, An Attempt To Dissolve The Magazine's Oppressive Context. Once I'd Enter His Apartment To Find Him On His Carpet With A Pair Of Scissors, Furiously Slicing Up And Rearranging An Issue Of The Magazine, Trying To Shatter Its Spell On His Brain.

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