The Memory of Old Jack
by Wendell Berry
Reader’s Choice: A Favorite Passage
“That a whole roomful of people should sit with their mouths open like a nest of young birds, peering into a picture box ... is strange to him, unreal; he might have slept long and waked in a land of talking monkeys.”
—page 188, Chapter 8
Harvest paperback
submitted by BPressler, who adds:
I like it because he’s talking about television. And, well, when you think about it, we really are a bunch of “talking monkeys.”
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