12 Feb 2007
Forster, ''The Machine Stops''
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Nostradamus Forster
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like...
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Tracked: February 9, 2007 5:48 PM
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like...
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Tracked: February 9, 2007 5:48 PM
Ideas near and far!
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: February 10, 2007 1:37 PM
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Disillustioned Civilization
Excerpt: 'Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine?' Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: February 10, 2007 5:28 PM
Excerpt: 'Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine?' Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: February 10, 2007 5:28 PM
A Nazi Machine?
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) The better a man knew his own duties upon it, the less he understood the duties of his neighbour, and in all the world there was not one who...
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Tracked: February 10, 2007 9:00 PM
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) The better a man knew his own duties upon it, the less he understood the duties of his neighbour, and in all the world there was not one who...
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Tracked: February 10, 2007 9:00 PM
The Narrator is the Machine!!!
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "She replied that she could scarcely spare time for a visit" (1). "She told him to continue" (7). I selected these two very short lines because I found the...
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Tracked: February 11, 2007 9:11 AM
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "She replied that she could scarcely spare time for a visit" (1). "She told him to continue" (7). I selected these two very short lines because I found the...
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Tracked: February 11, 2007 9:11 AM
The "Machine" Helps Run Our Lives!?
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "The Machine," they exclaimed, "feeds us and clothes us and houses us; through it we speak to one another, through it we see one another, in it we have...
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Tracked: February 11, 2007 3:20 PM
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "The Machine," they exclaimed, "feeds us and clothes us and houses us; through it we speak to one another, through it we see one another, in it we have...
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Scary!
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "She repeated, 'No ideas here,' and hid Greece behind a metal blind." Throughout this short story, I am totally freaked out by the fact that everything we consider beautiful...
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Tracked: February 11, 2007 5:33 PM
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "She repeated, 'No ideas here,' and hid Greece behind a metal blind." Throughout this short story, I am totally freaked out by the fact that everything we consider beautiful...
Weblog: BethanyMerryman
Tracked: February 11, 2007 5:33 PM
Technology helper or destroyer?
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) You talk as if god had made the Machine. I found this story to be depressing and enlightening. The brilliancy of humans to be able to create new technologies...
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Tracked: February 11, 2007 5:50 PM
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) You talk as if god had made the Machine. I found this story to be depressing and enlightening. The brilliancy of humans to be able to create new technologies...
Weblog: JennaMiller
Tracked: February 11, 2007 5:50 PM
Living in a Material World
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) " It was naked, humanity seemed naked, and all thses tubes and buttons and mmachineries neither came into the world with us, nor will they follow us out, nor...
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Tracked: February 11, 2007 8:19 PM
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) " It was naked, humanity seemed naked, and all thses tubes and buttons and mmachineries neither came into the world with us, nor will they follow us out, nor...
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What if?
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Told You So...
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) 'Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine? We...
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Tracked: February 11, 2007 9:08 PM
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) 'Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine? We...
Weblog: MargaretJones
Tracked: February 11, 2007 9:08 PM
marshmellows and tuna fish
Excerpt: "It was supposed that no one but the gods could exist above their summits. How we have advanced, thanks to the Machine!"...
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Tracked: February 12, 2007 10:34 AM
Excerpt: "It was supposed that no one but the gods could exist above their summits. How we have advanced, thanks to the Machine!"...
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Why we ask "Why?"
Excerpt: 'A way of your own?' she whispered. 'But that would be wrong.' 'Why?' Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: February 12, 2007 11:09 AM
Excerpt: 'A way of your own?' she whispered. 'But that would be wrong.' 'Why?' Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: February 12, 2007 11:09 AM
Prematurely Six Feet Under
Excerpt: As he spoke, the whole city was broken like a honeycomb. An air-ship had sailed in through the vomitory into a ruined wharf. It crashed downwards, exploding as it went, rending gallery after gallery with its wings of steel. For...
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Tracked: February 12, 2007 12:17 PM
Excerpt: As he spoke, the whole city was broken like a honeycomb. An air-ship had sailed in through the vomitory into a ruined wharf. It crashed downwards, exploding as it went, rending gallery after gallery with its wings of steel. For...
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Humans or Machines?
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "We created the Machine to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It was robbed us of the sense of space and of the...
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Tracked: February 12, 2007 6:51 PM
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "We created the Machine to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It was robbed us of the sense of space and of the...
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Tracked: February 12, 2007 6:51 PM
Forster predicted the future
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. There were buttons and switches everywhere - buttons...
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Tracked: February 15, 2007 5:33 PM
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. There were buttons and switches everywhere - buttons...
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Tracked: February 15, 2007 5:33 PM
Reflection on "The Machine Stops" and Terms
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) I found this story to be depressing and enlightening. Technology is great because it does make some things in life easier. However, we cannot let it get out of...
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Tracked: February 20, 2007 5:18 PM
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) I found this story to be depressing and enlightening. Technology is great because it does make some things in life easier. However, we cannot let it get out of...
Weblog: JennaMiller
Tracked: February 20, 2007 5:18 PM
Are You My Mom?
Excerpt: "Parents, duties of, cease at the moment of birth." Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: February 20, 2007 9:14 PM
Excerpt: "Parents, duties of, cease at the moment of birth." Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: February 20, 2007 9:14 PM
Show me the Technology
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Reflection paper...
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Tracked: February 20, 2007 9:47 PM
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Reflection paper...
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Domo Arigato
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) " It only gave a general idea of people - an idea that was good enough for all practical purposes, Vashti thought. The imponderable bloom, declared by a discredited...
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Tracked: February 22, 2007 4:32 PM
Excerpt: Forster, ''The Machine Stops'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) " It only gave a general idea of people - an idea that was good enough for all practical purposes, Vashti thought. The imponderable bloom, declared by a discredited...
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