The reader is a moron who has to be babied, tickled, prodded, pr… — From a 1940s draft of Typhon, the manuscript that later became The Mechanical Bride, quoted in W. Terrence Gordon, MM: Escape into Understanding (1997), p 133

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The reader is a moron who has to be babied, tickled, prodded, propped and paddled.

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

Quote #7341

Year: 1940

Chapter: Wake Them Up!