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"I took the Minnesota multiphasic profile test once, and I tested out as paranoid, cyclothymic, neurotic, and schizophrenic. But I also tested out as an incorrigible liar!"
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![]() Mildred wears two of them; none of that painful reality stuff for her.
A classic description of the human animal in the age of technology.
For a current view of the state-of-the-art in Seashell radios, see the following commercial product - the Lobeman.
It turns out that these radios were not so far off; Bradbury wrote the novel in 1953; take a look at these pictures from Modern Mechanix magazine in November, 1959.
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The article describes it as "radios as small as sugar cubes." An interesting contrast can be made to the green bullet from the same novel; it's a similar technology, but for a different purpose. Check it out! Comment/Join this discussion ( 4 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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