You can just order yourself blue in the face out of these catalogs. I think they are wonderful. Recreational shopping is sitting in my chair by the fire with 10,000 catalogs spread all over me. For an hour, I'm a rich man going through them. Catalogs define us.
Catalogs are part of the American landscape.
But as I have read these catalogs and enjoyed them, I have discovered some special things. I imagine there's not a person here who knows what the L. L. stands for. I only knew it because. Each of these catalogs represents a neighborhood. We are using them, the sociologists tell us, primarily because the women have gone back into the work force.