Burgess Meredith plays the well known Twilight Zone character, simple, lackadaisical, Mr. Henry Bemis.Mr. Bemis is a bank teller who only wants to read. His boss won't let him read. When he gets home, his wife tears up, throws out, hides or strikes through any piece of literature. Even nutrition facts on cereal boxes are cut out. One day at work, Bemis walks downstairs on his lunch break. He enters the vault with his brown-bagged lunch, book and morning newspaper. The headline on the paper:
Suddenly, his book whips open and his pocket watch cracks. Bemis creeps up the steps from the vault into the post-apocalyptic setting. Everything is destroyed. He gets desperate and fears that he can't do this loneliness. He finds a gun and contemplates his suicide. He puts the gun to his head when he sees he has been sitting across from the imploded library! After he sorts all the books by month and year. He sits down with his first novel. He notices he missed a book. He goes to pick up the delicious pages when his thick glasses fall from his face and crack.
Poor, terrible, ironic fate for Mr. Henry Bemis.
SPIN
I believe this episode represents the shift from paper to soft-copy we are currently experiencing. Kindles, Nooks, e-Books, Readers. Newspaper are becoming null-and-void. I don't need to post a link to explain the phenomenon. Reading is becoming more popular, I believe, in shorter, more brief segments. Hence the popularity of blogs, online newspapers and e-books. Even more essays are becoming electronic rather than printed copy. Handbooks aren't given out, the links to the handbooks are dispersed instead.
Since we are an audience exercised on proving statements with facts and sources, here. Click this. That is the link to an article on Engadget, a technology website, to support the rapid sales of e-books on Amazon.
Buy newspapers! Support local journalists and those aspiring to journalists!
(We need paying jobs!)
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