QUOTE : Fifty long years rapidly up and yet how quietly and without fuss they continued to glide into the future on a smooth and silent electric train that had no brakes; not moving dramatically fast but simply and inexorably, as though it, being a monstrous, impassive machine, saw no need to pick up speed to arrive at a future that too would be so unnervingly dull, so much a numbing repetition of fruitless routine, its incapacitating tedium to be interrupted only by death, that final, endless, terrifying yawn.