The Learners: A Novel (No Series) - Plot & Excerpts
STANLEY MILGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CONN.I want to take part in this study of memory and learning. I am between the ages of 20 and 50. I will be paid $4.00 (plus 50¢ carfare) if I participate.9, 10.NAME (PLEASE PRINT)……………………….ADDRESS……………………………………..TELEPHONE NO.…………………….. BEST TIME TO CALL………………………………AGE………. OCCUPATION…………………..I CAN COME: WEEKDAYS………. EVENINGS………. WEEKENDS………………11The ad had been running every day now for three weeks, and no order to stop it—by far the longest life of anything I’d worked on. Shamelessly, I’d hunt it down each morning in the Register like a parent looking for his child on the crowded stage of a kindergarten play. Where was it? Next to the Red Sox scores? Above the movie listings? Below Dear Abby? No…there it is, by the horoscopes! Yoo-hoo! Daaaarling!I’d clip its entire host page, fold it in fours, and add it to the growing stack next to my tool tray.
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