I was just thinking about Lawrence and that poem and there you are! Thank you, Gwyneth, and sending blessings to you for that timely and wonderful offering....Tony
I was just thinking about Lawrence and that poem and there you are! Thank you, Gwyneth, and sending blessings to you for that timely and wonderful offering....Tony
You may also consider "The Machine Stops" written in 1909 by E. M. Forster.
"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? We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. 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 lines. The Machine proceeds — but not to our goal. 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 was just thinking about Lawrence and that poem and there you are! Thank you, Gwyneth, and sending blessings to you for that timely and wonderful offering....Tony
And blessings to you, Tony.
You may also consider "The Machine Stops" written in 1909 by E. M. Forster.
"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? We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. 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 lines. The Machine proceeds — but not to our goal. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die.”