Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column,winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume. I exaggerate, of course. Thedictionaries were for reference. But many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet (youknow the title certainly, Montag; it is probably only a faint rumour of a title to you, Mrs.Montag) whose sole knowledge, as I say, of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book thatclaimed: 39;now at least you can read all the classics; keep up with your neighbours.39; Do you see?Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there39;s your intellectual pattern forthe past five centuries or more.