Jonathan Lethem quote — “For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of …”

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For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.

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