The "Nevertheless, (S)He Persisted" M & D Group Read.

[Mark Kohut]

The Machine Stops: Silence in the Metaphor of Malfunction

A scholarly book title found serendipitously with Plist metaphoric meaning.
Probably dual, ambiguities and all.

On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 6:43 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> p. 361. The Machine paragraph riff:
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> http://www.ediblegeography.com/in-the-time-of-full-mechanisation/
> This book was quite popular, sold steadily, in the late sixties and early
> seventies, just fyi.
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> Some album or group entitled* Mechanization Takes Command* in the
> eighties.
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> "Things are in the saddle and ride Mankind"---R.W. Emerson, 19th Century.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
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> So, Machine was a capped Noun, outside of Pynchon's M & D era, a reified
> overarching concept, even in 1909. Was Forster the one who did it?
> If I, or anyone, cared enough, I'd research it more.
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