A motto for a journal.

From the Foreword of the Viking Book of Aphorsims by W.H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger in 1962:

At a time . . . when it seems as if it were precisely the worst aspects of out technological culture—our noise, our vulgarity, our insane waste of natural resources—which are the most exportable (European intellectuals who imagine these vices to be of American origin are willfully deceiving themselves), we are bold to think of this volume as evidence that there are others—such as humor and a capacity for self-criticism—which, though less intrusive than jukeboxes and bombs, are neither negligible nor unworthy of respect.

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