ABSTRACT
Russia.”11 Nordau anticipated that it would take a century for people to be able “to read a dozen square yards of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone, to be thinking simultaneously of the five continents of the world” without injury to the nerves. Paul Claudel reacted more positively in 1904 when he wrote that the morning newspaper gives us a sense of “the present in its totality,”12 and an editorial in Paris-Midi of February 23, 1914, characterized the headlines of one daily paper as “simultaneous poetry.”
