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| author | Silvio Rhatto <rhatto@riseup.net> | 2017-09-30 14:06:22 -0300 |
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diff --git a/books/scifi/machine-stops.mdwn b/books/scifi/machine-stops.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 1da0e36..0000000 --- a/books/scifi/machine-stops.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta title="The Machine Stops"]] - -[THE MACHINE STOPS ... E.M. Forster](http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html): - - And of course she had studied the civilization that had immediately preceded - her own - the civilization that had mistaken the functions of the system, and - had used it for bringing people to things, instead of for bringing things to - people. Those funny old days, when men went for change of air instead of - changing the air in their rooms! - - [...] - - Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth - was exactly alike all over. - - [...] - - What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why - return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their - bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul. - - [...] - - Beneath those corridors of shining tiles were rooms, tier below tier, reaching - far into the earth, and in each room there sat a human being, eating, or - sleeping, or producing ideas. And buried deep in the hive was her own room. - - [...] - - But the Committee of the Mending Apparatus now came forward, and allayed the - panic with well-chosen words. It confessed that the Mending Apparatus was - itself in need of repair. - - [...] - - There were gradations of terror- at times came rumours of hope-the Mending - Apparatus was almost mended-the enemies of the Machine had been got under- new - "nerve-centres" were evolving which would do the work even more magnificently - than before. - - [...] - - "I have seen them, spoken to them, loved them. They are hiding in the midst and - the ferns until our civilization stops. Today they are the Homeless - tomorrow - ------ " |