Elwyn Brooks White

In print for fifty-five years, One Man's Meat continues to delight readers with E.B. White's witty, succinct observations on daily life at a Maine saltwater farm.

One Man's Meat

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Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half asleep. 

We shall stand or fall by television—of that I am quite sure…Television wilI enormously will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote. 

shall I not have intelligence with earth too? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mold myself?