* "Nothing looks more neat and regular than a newspaper, with
its parallel columns, its mechanical printing, its detailed facts and figures,
its responsible, polysyllabic leading articles. Nothing, as a matter of fact,
goes every night through more agonies of adventure, more hairbreadth escapes,
desperate expedients, crucial councils, random compromises, or barely averted
catastrophes. Seen from the outside, it seems to come round as automatically as
the clock and silently as the dawn. Seen from the inside, it gives all its
organizers a gasp of relief every morning to see that it has come out at all…"
--G.K. Chesterton in A Miscellany of Men.
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