“When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.” WellsChildrenPersonsStillsDoneSportsSawsImagineNewsIsolatedImagine ThatJakarta Author:Andrea Hirata
“Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole.” ThinkingWellsHeartDoeCountryWholeCommunityConsciousnessTelevisionTvsIsolatedCommunionSuggestionsVicinity Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future