This just in from our English correspondent in the United States, reporting on the frenzied life of Americans tethered to Twitter and cellphone. He describes the diners in a hotel dining-room:
They would frequently start up and dart from the room at a summons from the telephone. … I could not help feeling a breath of home … when I first sat down in a Canadian hostelry, and read the announcement that no such telephonic or other summonses were allowed in the dining-room.
Oh wait, no -- let me check the date. Actually not Twitter. This is Chesterton reporting from his American tour in … 1921.
As our observer states on the next page:
The best of all news is that nothing is really new.
-- G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America
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