Predead

Ads that had created the most visually sophisticated audience on earth: the American TV viewer. For such an audience, Radler knew, the shows being churned out by the networks were . . . predead.

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In sum, the fact that beings are neither Being nor capable of nonbeing is chastening — but sadness would seem considerably alleviated by the realization that (contra Sartre's No Exit) inability to exist in every way as in our predead days we wanted to exist is no block to awareness, choice, and change for the better, the natural.

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All that came bubbling up from his memory, seeping through remembrances of long winter nights suffering with the predead stench of the human sties the Yankees called prison cells at Rock Island in Illinois.

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Tammany members could visualize Indian contemporaries — the challenging savages on the border — as simply predead Indians who, upon dying, would become historical, locked in a grand narrative of inevitable American progress.

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