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Thoughts on learning that the image of a cabbage, as transmitted by television, can be converted into sound, turned into a gramophone record, and then, when the record is played, be converted back into the picture of a cabbage.
I have seen the turnips singing By a lordly cabbage led; I have heard a dewdrop clinging To the rose that bowed her head; I have sniffed at a sonata, I have touched next Friday week; I have tasted a cantata I have smelt a sausage speak. Now of old if I had wildly Made the claims I do today I should soon, to put it mildly, Have been firmly led away; Doctors, acting with decision, Would have taken me in charge; Now they call it television -- And you see, I'm still at large!
Source: Science News-Letter, Feb. 5, 1927.
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