"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 our being. The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine."
There whole lives revolve around what the Machine gives to them even though they created the machine and gave it a purpose but now they are dependent on it
"Have you ever seen, round the vomitories, the bones of those who were extruded after the Great Rebellion?"
Why is this question repeated?
Wessex lies above the room in which we are talking now
They studied topical geography
beneath the surface of the earth
THe people live underground in a society that worships the machine
O Machine
The machine is sort of a God or divine figure to these people
The surface of the earth is only dust and mud, no life remains on it, and you would need a respirator, or the cold of the outer air would kill you. One dies immediately in the outer air."
The Earth is vacant what caused this and where is the story taking place
wearisome Machine
Personification of the machine and giving it a human quality
isolation knob, so that no one else could speak to her. Then she touched the lighting apparatus, and the little room was plunged into darkness
This creates a feeling of aloneness and darkness but why is she placing herself in this kind of situation?
pneumatic post
What exactly is a pneumatic post and what role does this play in the story?
No bodies touched. Whatever physical interaction occurred consisted of a mingling of electronic signals sent from sites spread out between New York City and Sydney, Australia.
How could someone possibly rape someone in New York when they were in Australia
he was at the time a fat, oleaginous, Bisquick-faced clown dressed in cum-stained harlequin garb and girdled with a mistletoe-and-hemlock belt whose buckle bore the quaint inscription "KISS ME UNDER THIS, BITCH!"
Sounds like this dude is a pretty big loser