![]() ![]() What if someone wrote “a jaw-droppingly, gob-smackingly, breath-takingly accurate literary description of lockdown life” under COVID in 2021? What if they wrote it in 1909? “In time… there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation ‘seraphically free from taint of personality.’”.They are but the physical impressions produced by love and fear, and on this gross foundation who could erect a philosophy? Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation. “Beware of first-hand ideas!… First-hand ideas do not really exist.Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. ![]() ![]() Here are three quotations from The Machine Stops: ![]()
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