The Machine develops - but not on our lies. There were buttons and switches everywhere – buttons to call for food for music, for clothing. The Machine is much, but not everything.” ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops
The Machine develops - but not on our lies.
"I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy.
Kuno and Vashti, have differing opinions about the world which they live in and their interaction and conflict as their society comes to a sudden collapse. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? The room, though it contained nothing, was in touch with all that she cared for in the world. And there were of course the buttons by which she communicated with her friends. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
2011. Otherwise we might come to believe, as we have already to some degree, that "good enough" is "good".
And in time” — his voice rose — “there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation ‘seraphically free From taint of personality,’ which will see the French Revolution not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine.”, “Time passed, and they resented the defects no longer. “Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine?
See more on GoodReads, “Turkish DelightTurkish delight has had a bad reputation since that man C.S.Lewis - a positive genius in other ways - linked it for ever with one of the most terrifying creations in literature, the White Witch of Narnia, and that naughty, sticky, traitorous Edmund. Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution.
You who listen to me are in a better position to judge about the French Revolution than I am. RESOURCES. There was the hot-bath button, by pressure of which a basin of (imitation) marble rose out of the floor, filled to the brim with a warm deodorized liquid.
The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal.
This was the Book of the Machine.
They simply complain, and get the almonds stuck up their noses,” Maybe in Cassie’s world, you can do that and have it end in making out. But the discontent grew, for mankind was not yet sufficiently adaptable to do without sleeping.
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams, “Like, this whole Molly thing with the secret crushes that go nowhere.
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Century after century had he toiled, and here was his reward.
Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine? exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die.
I think that in most cases, technological nature is probably better than no nature, but not as good as the real thing.
But be sure that the intermediates are many and varied, for in history one authority exists to counteract another. We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops, “Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. They described the strange feeling of peace that came over them when they handled the Book of the Machine, the pleasure that it was to repeat certain numerals out of it, however little meaning those numerals conveyed to the outward ear, the ecstasy of touching a button, however unimportant, or of ringing an electric bell, however superfluously. We hope you’ll join us. Each infant was examined at birth, and all who promised undue strength were destroyed. ""They get better.” There was the cold-bath button. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.” Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element — direct observation.
Refresh and try again. The Machine is much, but not everything.”, “Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops, “In the dawn of the world our weakly must be exposed on Mount Taygetus, in its twilight our strong will suffer euthanasia, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress eternally.”
Those who had long worshipped silently, now began to talk.
Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. 'Imagine, If You Can': Love, Time and the Impossibility of Utopia in E. M. Forster's 'The Machine Stops'. I was getting beyond its power.”, “Beware of first-hand ideas!” exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. Kuno then tells Vashti to believe in hope since there are people on
Welcome back. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die.” “First-hand ideas do not really exist. No wonder, then, that when the colonialists were finally expelled from these manufactured states, they left behind not only economic and political turmoil, but deeply divided populations with little common ground on which to construct a national identity.” typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. And heavenly it had been so long as man could shed it at will and live by the essence that is his soul, and the essence, equally divine, that is his body.”, “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. ― Becky Albertalli, quote from The Upside of Unrequited, “What happens when people open their hearts?
The Machine develops — but not on our lines. All were bitterly complained of at first, and then acquiesced in and forgotten.
Each quote represents a book that is 2011. Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops, “Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralyzed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it. As the events of the Indian Revolt demonstrated, the British believed that the best way to curb nationalist sentiment was to classify the indigenous population not as Indians, but as Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, etc. “You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other.
“You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation.
"The Machine Stops" is a 1909 science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to Directed by Adam Freise, Nathan Freise. The Machine is much, but not everything.” But with the sensuous pleasure imbued in its melting, gelatinous texture, and, when made in the proper way, delicately perfumed with rose petals, flavoured with oils and dusted with sugar, it reclaims its power as a sweet as seductive as Arabian nights. An armchair is in the centre, by its side a reading-desk - that is all the furniture.
The Machine develops - but not on our lies. There were buttons and switches everywhere – buttons to call for food for music, for clothing. The Machine is much, but not everything.” ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops
The Machine develops - but not on our lies.
"I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy.
Kuno and Vashti, have differing opinions about the world which they live in and their interaction and conflict as their society comes to a sudden collapse. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? The room, though it contained nothing, was in touch with all that she cared for in the world. And there were of course the buttons by which she communicated with her friends. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
2011. Otherwise we might come to believe, as we have already to some degree, that "good enough" is "good".
And in time” — his voice rose — “there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation ‘seraphically free From taint of personality,’ which will see the French Revolution not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine.”, “Time passed, and they resented the defects no longer. “Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine?
See more on GoodReads, “Turkish DelightTurkish delight has had a bad reputation since that man C.S.Lewis - a positive genius in other ways - linked it for ever with one of the most terrifying creations in literature, the White Witch of Narnia, and that naughty, sticky, traitorous Edmund. Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution.
You who listen to me are in a better position to judge about the French Revolution than I am. RESOURCES. There was the hot-bath button, by pressure of which a basin of (imitation) marble rose out of the floor, filled to the brim with a warm deodorized liquid.
The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal.
This was the Book of the Machine.
They simply complain, and get the almonds stuck up their noses,” Maybe in Cassie’s world, you can do that and have it end in making out. But the discontent grew, for mankind was not yet sufficiently adaptable to do without sleeping.
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams, “Like, this whole Molly thing with the secret crushes that go nowhere.
View All Titles.
Century after century had he toiled, and here was his reward.
Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine? exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die.
I think that in most cases, technological nature is probably better than no nature, but not as good as the real thing.
But be sure that the intermediates are many and varied, for in history one authority exists to counteract another. We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops, “Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. They described the strange feeling of peace that came over them when they handled the Book of the Machine, the pleasure that it was to repeat certain numerals out of it, however little meaning those numerals conveyed to the outward ear, the ecstasy of touching a button, however unimportant, or of ringing an electric bell, however superfluously. We hope you’ll join us. Each infant was examined at birth, and all who promised undue strength were destroyed. ""They get better.” There was the cold-bath button. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.” Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element — direct observation.
Refresh and try again. The Machine is much, but not everything.”, “Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops, “In the dawn of the world our weakly must be exposed on Mount Taygetus, in its twilight our strong will suffer euthanasia, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress eternally.”
Those who had long worshipped silently, now began to talk.
Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. 'Imagine, If You Can': Love, Time and the Impossibility of Utopia in E. M. Forster's 'The Machine Stops'. I was getting beyond its power.”, “Beware of first-hand ideas!” exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. Kuno then tells Vashti to believe in hope since there are people on
Welcome back. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die.” “First-hand ideas do not really exist. No wonder, then, that when the colonialists were finally expelled from these manufactured states, they left behind not only economic and political turmoil, but deeply divided populations with little common ground on which to construct a national identity.” typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. And heavenly it had been so long as man could shed it at will and live by the essence that is his soul, and the essence, equally divine, that is his body.”, “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. ― Becky Albertalli, quote from The Upside of Unrequited, “What happens when people open their hearts?
The Machine develops — but not on our lines. All were bitterly complained of at first, and then acquiesced in and forgotten.
Each quote represents a book that is 2011. Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops, “Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralyzed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it. As the events of the Indian Revolt demonstrated, the British believed that the best way to curb nationalist sentiment was to classify the indigenous population not as Indians, but as Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, etc. “You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other.
“You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation.
"The Machine Stops" is a 1909 science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to Directed by Adam Freise, Nathan Freise. The Machine is much, but not everything.” But with the sensuous pleasure imbued in its melting, gelatinous texture, and, when made in the proper way, delicately perfumed with rose petals, flavoured with oils and dusted with sugar, it reclaims its power as a sweet as seductive as Arabian nights. An armchair is in the centre, by its side a reading-desk - that is all the furniture.
The Machine develops - but not on our lies. There were buttons and switches everywhere – buttons to call for food for music, for clothing. The Machine is much, but not everything.” ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops
The Machine develops - but not on our lies.
"I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy.
Kuno and Vashti, have differing opinions about the world which they live in and their interaction and conflict as their society comes to a sudden collapse. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? The room, though it contained nothing, was in touch with all that she cared for in the world. And there were of course the buttons by which she communicated with her friends. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
2011. Otherwise we might come to believe, as we have already to some degree, that "good enough" is "good".
And in time” — his voice rose — “there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation ‘seraphically free From taint of personality,’ which will see the French Revolution not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine.”, “Time passed, and they resented the defects no longer. “Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine?
See more on GoodReads, “Turkish DelightTurkish delight has had a bad reputation since that man C.S.Lewis - a positive genius in other ways - linked it for ever with one of the most terrifying creations in literature, the White Witch of Narnia, and that naughty, sticky, traitorous Edmund. Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution.
You who listen to me are in a better position to judge about the French Revolution than I am. RESOURCES. There was the hot-bath button, by pressure of which a basin of (imitation) marble rose out of the floor, filled to the brim with a warm deodorized liquid.
The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal.
This was the Book of the Machine.
They simply complain, and get the almonds stuck up their noses,” Maybe in Cassie’s world, you can do that and have it end in making out. But the discontent grew, for mankind was not yet sufficiently adaptable to do without sleeping.
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams, “Like, this whole Molly thing with the secret crushes that go nowhere.
View All Titles.
Century after century had he toiled, and here was his reward.
Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine? exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die.
I think that in most cases, technological nature is probably better than no nature, but not as good as the real thing.
But be sure that the intermediates are many and varied, for in history one authority exists to counteract another. We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops, “Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. They described the strange feeling of peace that came over them when they handled the Book of the Machine, the pleasure that it was to repeat certain numerals out of it, however little meaning those numerals conveyed to the outward ear, the ecstasy of touching a button, however unimportant, or of ringing an electric bell, however superfluously. We hope you’ll join us. Each infant was examined at birth, and all who promised undue strength were destroyed. ""They get better.” There was the cold-bath button. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.” Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element — direct observation.
Refresh and try again. The Machine is much, but not everything.”, “Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops, “In the dawn of the world our weakly must be exposed on Mount Taygetus, in its twilight our strong will suffer euthanasia, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress eternally.”
Those who had long worshipped silently, now began to talk.
Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. 'Imagine, If You Can': Love, Time and the Impossibility of Utopia in E. M. Forster's 'The Machine Stops'. I was getting beyond its power.”, “Beware of first-hand ideas!” exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. Kuno then tells Vashti to believe in hope since there are people on
Welcome back. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die.” “First-hand ideas do not really exist. No wonder, then, that when the colonialists were finally expelled from these manufactured states, they left behind not only economic and political turmoil, but deeply divided populations with little common ground on which to construct a national identity.” typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. And heavenly it had been so long as man could shed it at will and live by the essence that is his soul, and the essence, equally divine, that is his body.”, “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. ― Becky Albertalli, quote from The Upside of Unrequited, “What happens when people open their hearts?
The Machine develops — but not on our lines. All were bitterly complained of at first, and then acquiesced in and forgotten.
Each quote represents a book that is 2011. Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops, “Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralyzed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it. As the events of the Indian Revolt demonstrated, the British believed that the best way to curb nationalist sentiment was to classify the indigenous population not as Indians, but as Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, etc. “You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other.
“You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation.
"The Machine Stops" is a 1909 science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to Directed by Adam Freise, Nathan Freise. The Machine is much, but not everything.” But with the sensuous pleasure imbued in its melting, gelatinous texture, and, when made in the proper way, delicately perfumed with rose petals, flavoured with oils and dusted with sugar, it reclaims its power as a sweet as seductive as Arabian nights. An armchair is in the centre, by its side a reading-desk - that is all the furniture.
Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself.
Finally, the Machine completely stopped to function and the underground civilization started to crumble and break down.
And so with the mouldy artificial fruit, so with the bath water that began to stink, so with the defective rhymes that the poetry machine had taken to emit. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself.
And heavenly it had been so long as man could shed it at will and live by the essence that is his soul, and the essence, equally divine, that is his body.” “Uh, I’m sorry boys don’t like me.” “That is such bullshit, Molly. But to me they were living and the turf that covered them was a skin, under which their muscles rippled, and I felt that those hills had called with incalculable force to men in the past, and that men had loved them.
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The suburb that changed the world. (6K votes), “You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralysed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it.
The Machine develops - but not on our lies. There were buttons and switches everywhere – buttons to call for food for music, for clothing. The Machine is much, but not everything.” ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops
The Machine develops - but not on our lies.
"I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy.
Kuno and Vashti, have differing opinions about the world which they live in and their interaction and conflict as their society comes to a sudden collapse. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? The room, though it contained nothing, was in touch with all that she cared for in the world. And there were of course the buttons by which she communicated with her friends. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
2011. Otherwise we might come to believe, as we have already to some degree, that "good enough" is "good".
And in time” — his voice rose — “there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation ‘seraphically free From taint of personality,’ which will see the French Revolution not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine.”, “Time passed, and they resented the defects no longer. “Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine?
See more on GoodReads, “Turkish DelightTurkish delight has had a bad reputation since that man C.S.Lewis - a positive genius in other ways - linked it for ever with one of the most terrifying creations in literature, the White Witch of Narnia, and that naughty, sticky, traitorous Edmund. Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution.
You who listen to me are in a better position to judge about the French Revolution than I am. RESOURCES. There was the hot-bath button, by pressure of which a basin of (imitation) marble rose out of the floor, filled to the brim with a warm deodorized liquid.
The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal.
This was the Book of the Machine.
They simply complain, and get the almonds stuck up their noses,” Maybe in Cassie’s world, you can do that and have it end in making out. But the discontent grew, for mankind was not yet sufficiently adaptable to do without sleeping.
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams, “Like, this whole Molly thing with the secret crushes that go nowhere.
View All Titles.
Century after century had he toiled, and here was his reward.
Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine? exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die.
I think that in most cases, technological nature is probably better than no nature, but not as good as the real thing.
But be sure that the intermediates are many and varied, for in history one authority exists to counteract another. We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops, “Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. They described the strange feeling of peace that came over them when they handled the Book of the Machine, the pleasure that it was to repeat certain numerals out of it, however little meaning those numerals conveyed to the outward ear, the ecstasy of touching a button, however unimportant, or of ringing an electric bell, however superfluously. We hope you’ll join us. Each infant was examined at birth, and all who promised undue strength were destroyed. ""They get better.” There was the cold-bath button. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.” Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element — direct observation.
Refresh and try again. The Machine is much, but not everything.”, “Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops, “In the dawn of the world our weakly must be exposed on Mount Taygetus, in its twilight our strong will suffer euthanasia, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress eternally.”
Those who had long worshipped silently, now began to talk.
Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. 'Imagine, If You Can': Love, Time and the Impossibility of Utopia in E. M. Forster's 'The Machine Stops'. I was getting beyond its power.”, “Beware of first-hand ideas!” exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. Kuno then tells Vashti to believe in hope since there are people on
Welcome back. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die.” “First-hand ideas do not really exist. No wonder, then, that when the colonialists were finally expelled from these manufactured states, they left behind not only economic and political turmoil, but deeply divided populations with little common ground on which to construct a national identity.” typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. And heavenly it had been so long as man could shed it at will and live by the essence that is his soul, and the essence, equally divine, that is his body.”, “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. ― Becky Albertalli, quote from The Upside of Unrequited, “What happens when people open their hearts?
The Machine develops — but not on our lines. All were bitterly complained of at first, and then acquiesced in and forgotten.
Each quote represents a book that is 2011. Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. ― E.M. Forster, quote from The Machine Stops, “Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralyzed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it. As the events of the Indian Revolt demonstrated, the British believed that the best way to curb nationalist sentiment was to classify the indigenous population not as Indians, but as Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, etc. “You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other.
“You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation.
"The Machine Stops" is a 1909 science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to Directed by Adam Freise, Nathan Freise. The Machine is much, but not everything.” But with the sensuous pleasure imbued in its melting, gelatinous texture, and, when made in the proper way, delicately perfumed with rose petals, flavoured with oils and dusted with sugar, it reclaims its power as a sweet as seductive as Arabian nights. An armchair is in the centre, by its side a reading-desk - that is all the furniture.
