[lit-ideas] Re: Poetry and Madness

  • From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:06:26 -0400

Robert: I can remember, honest, when TV stations SIGNED OFF THE AIR around midnight, certainly by 1:00 a.m. Maybe in New York or Kansas City there were all night stations, but not where I was.


I remember that as a child. WCBS New York remained on all night, but the other stations did a sign off.


The signoff was a miniature apocalypse:
        *first a brief sermon urging the faithful to repent
        *then the Star Spangled Banner played
        *then a picture of an American Indian in a bullseye
        *then white noise and howling static.

All you need for an apocalypse!

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