“The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.”

— James Agate

Ego 4, p. 149, December 18, 1939.

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British diarist and critic 1877–1947

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