Reading the Value System of Gravity's Rainbow ...

[Mark Kohut]

pp14-15 in The Machine in the Garden, visible here online, tells a terrif
Hawthorne and railroad whistle story..............

> > And, in "the Machine in the Garden:, Leo Marx quotes
> from Thoreau on his beloved nature ..pierced by the awful
> train whistle....
> > A--and we know what TRP thinks of trains in AtD......
> 
> http://anthologyoi.com/writings/books/literature/literature-thoreaus-consideration-of-the-railroad-is-a-blessing-a-curse-and-a-symbol.html
> http://www.kenkifer.com/Thoreau/sounds.htm
> 
> Marx, Leo.  The Machine in the Garden:
>    Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in
> America.
>    New York: Oxford UP, 1964.
> 
> http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/?cp=24297&view=usa&ci=019513351X
> http://books.google.com/books?id=aJ3SfJyseSoC
> 
> Another, if not must-, SHOULD-read here, at any rate. 
> Thanks, Mark!
>