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Author Stern's autobiographical scheme was also a psychological experiment. She decided to start from a casually selected object, let subconscious association's artful aid carry her whither it would; repeat the process twice, to the point where all three random lines met - "and see then whether the space they enclose remains a vacuum, or whether anything of interest, any personal King Charles's Head, has got itself involuntarily shut into the triangle."* The scheme has the merit of surprise: no one, not even Author Stern, can tell where she is going to end up. For example...
...Ordinary thermionic tubes generate electrons by boiling them from a hot filament. The multipactor takes advantage of the fact that certain metals hold electrons in suspension on their surfaces in such a way that impacts from outside electrons release them. When the current in the multipactor is turned on, random electrons are driven against the cold sides of the tube, loosing more electrons which bounce back & forth between the walls setting free still other electrons. All this happens so quickly that the current is amplified a million times in less than one-millionth of a second...
...Farnsworth sender the image falls on a photosensitive cathode surface without dots. Electrons knocked out of the cathode by the light image in random directions are brought to a focus by a stationary magnetic field. This "electronic image" corresponds to the light image. By means of oscillating magnetic fields, the entire electronic image is moved back & forth 7,200 times a second in front of an aperture. The number of electrons escaping through the aperture constitutes a varying electric current, which, amplified and transmitted, controls the "oscillight" in the receiving set where the images are conversely reproduced...
...eventually ran to seven volumes and retailed for $30 per set. Mr. Davis was very strict about selling only to the professions. Since the War, however, there has been such a great change in the U. S. attitude toward sex that Bennett A. Cerf, head of Manhattan's Random House, felt safe in bringing out this week a new four-volume edition of Studies in the Psychology of Sex and selling them to all-comers at $15 per set. This unexpurgated edition, printed from the old Davis plates, had behind it a mass of U. S. court decisions which...
INHALE & EXHALE-William Saroyan- Random House...