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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America QUOTES

1 " ...romantic weltschmerz, a state of feeling thought to be basically subversive yet in most cases, like 'beat' rebelliousness today, adolescent and harmless. "

― , The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

2 " Although most earlier versions of pastoral had been set in never-never lands, and although The Tempest contains only one allusion to the actual New World, its setting is not wholly fanciful. We begin with a commonplace event of the age: a ship caught in a storm and beached on an uninhabited island. It is like an Elizabethen news report. "

― , The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America