LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Had I the tongue of men and angels I should be unable to make sure that
even the most faithful listeners would be able to hear and grasp the
whole of a series of my talks.
That is the disadvantage of the radio form, and heaven knows when I
shall be able to print these texts in book or books available to the
American and English public. Book implying that [the] reader CAN,
when he wishes, look back, take up the statement of the preface, see
where Chapter X hitches onto Chapter I. Nevertheless you may as well
make the effort to grasp at least the fact that there IS a sequence in what
I am saying, and that the conversation of February coheres with that of
April. And if you, you in Iowa, Wyoming, Connecticut, DON’T make
that effort, if you don’t listen and TRY to get [the] main threads and
cables of what I am telling you, you will lose time.
Just as the writers who did NOT read the Little Review lost time. Many
never made it up. There is no one of any literary size, or even pretenions
among you who hasn’t by now read the Little Review authors, or authors
formed by the Little Review authors. Authors indebted to the Little
Review and to its authors for their force, their take off, the initial jab that
set ’em off.
Pity is that many got only a fragmentary view. Joyce and not Eliot, Eliot
not W. Lewis. I hear a million Americans have taken advantage of Mr.
Hemmingway’s last production, and so they ought to. TWO million
ought to read it (probably … I haven’t yet seen a copy but that is due to
conditions of Atlantic transport).
PITY is that there is so much else, so much essential else that they are
unblissfully UNaware of. And I honestly do not know where they can
get essential parts of that else, except from my broadcasts. And out of
them, out of these talks, the young men in England and America will
have to build their souls, or at least their minds for tomorrow, or LOSE
time, never get into life at all.