In Popular Culture
In "The Friar's Club", an episode of Seinfeld, Kramer attempts to use this form of sleep, with unintended consequences.
In Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction novel, The Word for World is Forest, the indigenous race practices polyphasic sleep universally and successfully. They are understood to be the result of genetic modification of humans in a bygone interstellar empire.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first—rock and roll or Christianity.”
—John Lennon (1940–1980)
“The local is a shabby thing. There’s nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)