The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces† Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.

-Bellow, Saul
  Something To Remember Me By, preface.

The cold reaches of the universe must not become the new area of an even colder war.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  Address to the United Nations, 25 Sep.

All art is solitaryand the studio is a torture area.

-Liberman, Alexander
  In the NewYork Times,13 May.