Readerdom

In the name of outraged readerdom I protest against such betrayal.

They come, I have found, separately and in substantial chunks. Your happy ending is obviously a sop to the tired business man of readerdom who prefers to do his thinking in the office.

"[…] He clashes with readerdom because he is his own ideal reader and those other readers are so very often mere lip- moving ghosts and amnesiacs” […]

[…] you—the huddled masses, the prols, the readers (who at this moment in history appear to be a dying breed)—to step from the shadows and affirm your readerdom, claiming it from the blight of infotainment and the cult of celebrity-worship TV!