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"'You know that
we have lost the sense of space. We say 'space is annihilated', but we have
annihilated not space, but the sense thereof. We have lost a part of ourselves.
I determined to recover it, and I began by walking up and down the platform
of the railway outside my room. Up and down, until I was tired, and so did
recapture the meaning of "Near" and "Far". "Near"
is a place to which I can get quickly on my feet, not a place to which the
train or the air-ship will take me quickly. 'Far' is a place to which I
cannot get quickly on my feet; the vomitory is 'far', though I could be
there in thirty-eight seconds by summoning the train. Man is the measure.
That was my first lesson. Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands
are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable
and desirable and strong. Then I went further: .". "The Machine Stops" was first published in the Oxford and Cambridge Review in 1909 © 1947 E.M. Forster |
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