> “The Machine,” they exclaimed, “feeds us and clothes us and houses us; through it we speak to one another, through it we see one another, in it we have our being. The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.”
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> "she spoke with some petulance to the Committee of the Mending Apparatus. They replied, as before, that the defect would be set right shortly. “Shortly! At once!” she retorted"
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> "there came a day when, without the slightest warning, without any previous hint of feebleness, the entire communication-system broke down, all over the world, and the world, as they understood it, ended."
> “The Machine,” they exclaimed, “feeds us and clothes us and houses us; through it we speak to one another, through it we see one another, in it we have our being. The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.”
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> "she spoke with some petulance to the Committee of the Mending Apparatus. They replied, as before, that the defect would be set right shortly. “Shortly! At once!” she retorted"
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> "there came a day when, without the slightest warning, without any previous hint of feebleness, the entire communication-system broke down, all over the world, and the world, as they understood it, ended."