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Senior turns on his lamp. 4:30 nighttime. He has been stirred by a comment on the radio, an image in a dream, a nervous fantasy. These are his Thesis Thoughts...
Pickled Okra & Oil Lamps. In some ways, Lady Bird's tastes are militantly homespun. Her favorite recipes are for turkey dressing, spinach souffle, double divinity and pickled okra. She likes to watch television, talk on the telephone, hunt deer, shoot doves, take home movies. She recalls with pride her childhood on an isolated Texas farm: "I used an oil lamp until I was nine years old, and I can remember what a big day it was when we finally got indoor plumbing...
Telcan has a number of other tricks up its transistorized sleeve. With the addition of a tiny TV camera (about $150), Telcan can turn the living room into a studio so that shots of Sister tap dancing in her new stretch pants, Uncle Al wearing the lamp shade at the party, or Dad doing his R.C.A.F. exercises can be immortalized on tape for instant see-back on the family TV set, like Polaroid movies...
Then, through his dirty glasses, he saw the dancing stars of light, red, green, blue, and yellow, adorning the lamp posts. His breath caught at the sight. The lights reminded him of the glints gently refracting off the top of the soup he had eaten for dinner...
...tries to offset the statistics with such personal observations, his economists sometimes complain that he has not given enough weight to the staff's figures. At such times, Martin likes to paraphrase G. K. Chesterton to show that he, too, takes his polling modestly: "A drunkard uses a lamp pole for support, not for illumination...