“Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.”

“God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.”

“It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.”

“Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.”

“We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.”

“I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun.The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My love and I, we looked amazed Upon the gory mystery. "Lie down, lie down!" the people cried. "The great machine is history!" My love and I, we ran away, The engine did not find us. We ran up to a mountain top, Left history far behind us. Perhaps we should have stayed and died, But somehow we don't think so. We went to see where history'd been, And my, the dead did stink so. ”