What Serling created, above all else, was a homegrown vernacular of alienation, identity slippage and paranoia, and he did it right when it most needed doing, when his audience was starved for a vocabulary to express their uneasiness -- and he did it on weekly television. Just the titles of his best episodes read like a found poem of All-American dread: Where Is Everybody? Walking Distance. People Are Alike All Over. Time Enough At Last. The Obsolete Man. Eye Of The Beholder. Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room. The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street. The After Hours. And so on. Jonathan Lethem on Rod Serling at the astounding
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