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"Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume."(p.55)
He of course doesn't mean this literally. He uses this hyperbole to draw attention to the fact that people don't learn and absorb information the way that they used to. And it's not that they can't... they simply choose not to.
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