“The network was running a pre-recorded tape of a morning quiz show. The contestants looked vapid, the announcer cheerfully bored, the questions pointless, and the prizes undesirable.”

— George Alec Effinger

Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 14 (p. 211).

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