TV go home

this bit of cute revolutionary thought from July’s choice, Alan Sillitoe’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning:

 

‘Television, he thought scornfully when she’d gone, they’d go barmy if they had that taken away. I’d love it if big Black Marias came down all the streets and men got out with hatchets to go in every house and smash all the tellies. Everybody’d go crackers. They wouldn’t know what to do. There’d be a revolution, I’m sure there would, they’d blow up the Council House and set fire to the Castle’