"Even if you send out thousands of letters and papers, make thousands of
phone calls, visit labs and universities across the country -- even if
you do so at Science conferences where folks are gathered in the 'hope'
of receiving the stuff you're trying to give them -- all that ever
happens is that, like the ancient folks, people treat you as if you're a
'madman,' and then 'burn you at the stake,' in whatever way of doing
such is 'familiar' within folks' experience."
http://www.starve.org/usenet.html
Source:
Page 188 of WHITE NOISE
Keywords:
"honored," "microscopic," "realm"
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About The Usenet Project:
An "x" is drawn in the middle of a page of the 1999 Penguin Classics
Edition of Don DeLillo's WHITE NOISE. The first three, sometimes four,
words (excluding articles and prepositions) that intersect the lines of
this "x" from its cross are fed into Google's Usenet index, which dates
back to 1981. On even-numbered days, the most recent Google entry is
retrieved, using Google's "sort by date" function. On odd-numbered days,
the first Google entry to appear is retrieved -- anything from 1981 to
the present. The Usenet posting is copied to Starve.Org and linked to
http://www.starve.org/usenet.html. (No porn.) A new posting is included
every week -- an archive of radiant rants, habits, and hobbies mundane
everywhere except on specialized Usenet bulletin boards. Thanks to
Bernadette Mayer's "X on Page 50 at half inch intervals."
