“If we ever make it, we’ll wonder how on earth we could have been so stupid as to waste our time turning like cogs in a machine whose only purpose was to keep running – the Emmett Machine of Modern Life.”
“The object was facing to my left – at least, based on my assumptions about what it was. Its front had a curved underside, rising up. The dark bulk of the rest of it was less distinct, but could easily have been a seat.”