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The Voice of The Machines

The Voice of The Machines

Lee, Gerald Stanley
Books, Onlyart

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1535265574
ISBN13: 9781535265577
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 28 2016
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Excerpt: It would be difficult to find anything in the encyclopedia that would justify the claim that we are about to make, or anything in the dictionary. Even a poem--which is supposed to prove anything with a little of nothing--could hardly be found to prove it; but in this beginning hour of the twentieth century there are not a few of us--for the time at least allowed to exist upon the earth--who are obliged to say (with Luther), Though every tile on the roundhouse be a devil, we cannot say otherwise--the locomotive is beautiful.As seen when one is looking at it as it is, and is not merely using it.As seen from a meadow.We had never thought to fall so low as this, or that the time would come when we would feel moved--all but compelled, in fact--to betray to a cold and discriminating world our poor, pitiful, one-adjective state.We do not know why a locomotive is beautiful. We are perfectly aware that it ought not to be. We have all but been ashamed of it for being beautiful--and of ourselves. We have attempted all possible words upon it--the most complimentary and worthy ones we know--words with the finer resonance in them, and the air of discrimination the soul loves.

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