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-[THE MACHINE STOPS ... E.M. Forster](http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html):
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-    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!
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-    [...]
-
-    Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth
-    was exactly alike all over. 
-
-    [...]
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-    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
-    ------ "