Some Old Tom Wolfe
/"The introduction of realism into literature in the 18th century...was like the introduction of electricity into engineering....For writers to give up this power in the quest of a more up-to-date kind of fiction -- it is as if an engineer were to set out to develop a more sophisticated machine technology by first of all discarding the principle of electricity, on the grounds that it has been used ad nauseum for a hundred years." - Tom Wolfe, Harpers, Nov. 1989