34; 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. The dictionaries were for reference. But many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet (you know the title certainly, Montait is probably on a faint rumor of a title to you, Mrs Montag), whose sole knowledge, as I say, of Hamlet was a one-page digest on a book that claimed: now at last you can read all the classics; keep up with your neighbors. Do you see? Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there39;s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.”