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The Second Tree from the Corner

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The Second Tree From The Corner, E. B. White; Harper & Brothers various copyrights, 1935-54)

Somehow, this book didn't surface until this year, in a book store on Deer Isle, ME - decades after I had first learned about & became entranced with the writings of E. B. White.

TSC is a slim volume, but there's nothing shy or retiring about its impact, which is tremendous, if you will give it a chance.

When you see the "social media" zombies in the streets - staring vacantly at electronic gossip, oblivious to all else (& leery of actually meeting "friends" in person), remember that their grandparents were children at about the time that Mr. White wrote this, in the 1950s:

"Television was the ultimate peepshow... Children early formed the habit of gaining all their images at second hand, by looking at a screen; they grew up believing that anything perceived directly was vaguely fraudulent. Only what had been touched with electronics was valid & real."

And thus our gradual debasement began, which is now complete.