It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.

People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh."

[Afterword]

Today day everyone is in a simulation,staying in their own lane never getting out of formation.

We are human We are at war To them to us to the "others" But still we want peace

...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.

We live in a society where pizza takes shorter time to reach your house compared to the police, fire brigade, or ambulance.