“First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.”
“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
“So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.”
“METAPHOR: A tightly fitting suit of metal, generally tin, which entirely encloses the wearer, both impeding free movement and preventing emotional expression and/or social contact.”
“Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.”
“What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.”