Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen

Author:Kurt Andersen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

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*1 The host, Diana Paxson, became a successful author of fantasy fiction—and fantasy nonfiction, such as Taking Up the Runes: A Complete Guide to Using Runes in Spells, Rituals, Divination, and Magic.

*2 In his youth, Ray Kroc had had noteworthy brushes with Fantasyland past and future. A phrenologist examined him at age four and purportedly divined that Raymond would work in the restaurant business. At fifteen, during World War I, he lied about his age in order to enlist and served as a driver in the Red Cross Ambulance Corps—the same job in the same outfit that sixteen-year-old Walt Disney, a year later, lied about his age to join.

*3 During the same period, we never stopped to register that our food was suddenly becoming preternaturally colorful too: during the 1960s and early ’70s, the food dyes consumed by the average American—tons of Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1—more than doubled, a bigger increase than any comparable period before or since.

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