The average parent today should be detained in a mental-delousin… — From a 1940s draft of Typhon, the manuscript that became The Mechanical Bride, quoted in W. Terrence Gordon, MM: Escape into Understanding (1997), p 133

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The average parent today should be detained in a mental-delousing institution until cleansed of the verminous accretions of pseudo philosophy acquired while rolling around in the Circe of sensate culture.

From a 1940s draft of Typhon, the manuscript that became The Mechanical Bride, quoted in W. Terrence Gordon, MM: Escape into Understanding (1997), p 133

Quote #7340

Year: 1940

Chapter: Wake Them Up!