..."imagined communities." Anderson's central image is of a newspaper reader. Newspapers are read in privacy, Yet each communicant is well aware that the ceremony...of whose identity he has not the slightest notion. . . . What more vivid figure for the secular, historically-clocked, imagined community can be envisaged?...

...that the ceremony lie performs is being replicated simultaneously by thousands ior millions) of others whose existence he is confident, yet of whose identity he has not the slightest notion. 12 The Geogntphic used the democratic rhetoric of photographic images to bring readers into close relation...

...consecutive edition of the paper, 'by thousands (or millions) of others of whose existence [each communicant] is confident, yet of whose identity he has not the slightest notion'."" Two caveats must be borne in mind when deploying this general argument in relation to the English press...

...imagined" (Anderson, p. 33). He also stresses that the activity of reading the papers presupposes that "each communicant is well aware that the ceremony...of whose identity he has not the slightest notion" (Anderson, p. 35). By understanding that the newspaper performs a novelistic function of creating the...

...in such a national community assumes that his daily experience is more or less typical of those of "thousands (or millions) of others of whose existence...of whose identity he has not the slightest notion," for he/she has been "continually reassured that the imagined world is visibly rooted in everyday life,...

...Pope, but at the level of the calendar, by coordinating a daily "mass ceremony" whose "significance ... is paradoxical. It is performed in silent privacy,...Furthermore, this ceremony is incessantly repeated at daily . . . intervals throughout the calendar. What more vivid figure for the secular, historically clocked,...

...ceremony he perfonns is being replicated simultaneously by thousands ior millionsi of others of whnse existence he is confident, yet of whose identity he has not the slightest notion, , , , What more vivid figure for the secular, historically clocked, imagined community can be envisioned?...

...that newspaper reading is "performed in silent privacy, in the lair of the skull. Yet each participant is well aware that the ceremony he performs is being...of whose identity he has not the slightest notion." Anderson, Imagined Communities, p. 35. 12. US Congress, House, Annual Report of the Board of Managers...

...aware that the ceremony he [sic] performs is being replicated simultaneously by thousands 1or millions1 of others of whose existence he is confident. yet of whose identity he has not the slightest notion. . . . What more vivid figure for the secular. imagined community can be envisaged? 5 ' 1 None. perhaps....

...Genet's proofreader affirms with such fervor. Anderson has described this ritual as a "paradoxical" one. "It is performed in silent privacy, in the lair of...daily or half-daily intervals throughout the calendar. ... Fiction seeps quietly and continuously into reality, creating that remarkable confidence of community...