"When Life seems dreary, Oh
Switch on your Stereo
And turn the volume too high:
Soft music makes us cry.
Come, girls and boys
More noise, more noise!
Yell while you can and save
Your silence for the grave.
Never look at a thing
Except through a camera lens.
The moral is, as they have said:
Be with-it, with-it, with-it till you're dead."
Extracts from The Entertainment of the Senses
W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, September, 1973