AtDDtA1: "The Great Bovine City of the World"

[Dave Monroe]

On 1/23/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

>    "Beneath the rubbernecking Chums of Chance wheeled streets and
> alleyways in a Cartesian grid, sketched in sepia, mile on mile.  'The
> Great Bovine City of the World,' breathed Lindsay in wonder.  Indeed,
> the backs of cattle far outnumbered the tops of human hats.  From this
> height it was as if the Chums, who, out on adventures past, had often
> witnessed the vast herds of cattle adrift in ever-changing cloudlike
> patterns across the Western plains, here saw that unshaped freedom
> being rationalized into movement only in straight lines and at right
> angles and a progressive reduction of choices, until the final turn
> through the final gate that led to the killing-floor."  (AtD, Pt. I,
> Ch. 2, p. 10)

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