On Call
April, 1973
Only the comic madness of illustrator Tomi Ungerer could begin to capture the frustrating love/hate relationship that most of us have with the telephone. Unchecked, Ma Bell can be a strident mistress who too often screams when someone's in the tub, refuses to speak until all alone or rudely wrests whoever's within earshot from the arms of Morpheus (not to mention a more comely substitute). The Wellsian solution to the problem, of course, was for man to create a machine to control a machine, and...
