![]() ![]() 'But why shouldn't you go outside?' she exclaimed, 'It is perfectly legal, perfectly mechanical, to visit the surface of the earth. The tremendous thing has happened, and they have discovered me.' 'I have been outside since I spoke to you last. ![]() The victim is exposed to the air, which kills him. 'I have been threatened with Homelessness, and I could not tell you such a thing through the Machine.' 'I have been threatened with Homelessness,' said Kuno. Say what you want to say, and then I must return.' The sunlight almost touched me, and I have met with the rudest people. ![]() It is not worth it, Kuno, it is not worth it. I have had the most terrible journey and greatly retarded the development of my soul. And if Kuno himself, flesh of her flesh, stood close beside her at last, what profit was there in that? She was too well-bred to shake him by the hand. The buttons, the knobs, the reading-desk with the Book, the temperature, the atmosphere, the illumination – all were exactly the same. She might well declare that the visit was superfluous. Forster The Mending Apparatus īy a vestibule, by a lift, by a tubular railway, by a platform, by a sliding door – by reversing all the steps of her departure did Vashti arrive at her son's room, which exactly resembled her own. 143578 The Machine Stops - Chapter II: The Mending Apparatus E. ![]()
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