#mechanicalage

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She was staring into her scotch-and-floodwater rather moodily I though, debris bouncing on the waves all around us but she paid no attention." "'The end of the mechanical age,' said Mrs. Davis, 'is in my judgement an actuality straining to become a metaphor.'

-At The End of the Mechanical Age by Donald Barthelme

I highlighted so much of this story.