¶ Daddy (1)
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Daddy:
"All through the years Daddy was the authority. Daddy came home, brought home the food, brought home the killings; he was the hunter and the soldier; he was the farmer protecting the family.
"And Daddy saw the other people, the other soldiers and farmers; he saw the king and he was able to tell the kids what the authority says outside his authority and what the rules are. This is what his Pa taught him; this is how you handle the tools. Daddy is an authority about everything. This is the way Dad says it is and that’s the way you emulate the way he says it is.
"So that was how language evolved.
"When I was 32, in 1927, suddenly Daddy came home and the kids said, ‘Daddy, a man’s just flown across the Atlantic. Lindbergh.’ And Daddy says: ‘How do you know that?’ ‘It’s coming over the radio, Daddy.’ Daddy didn’t bring that news home and he hasn’t brought it since.
“So a completely new thing happened as a consequence of World War I. And World War II brought us to the point where television”
