A bill... is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the lo...ngest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of our factories with which we have ...lined all the watercourses in the States. A man hardly knows how much he is a machine, until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press, and locomotive, in his own image.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the motion-picture theater, the screen at rest is a neutral, shadowy blank; at rest, the fish-eye lens of the TV screen mirrors... the room over which it presides. In both, the images are luminous, lighted as though from within, but the motion-picture images hover on or just in front of the surface of the screen. The viewer moves toward inclusion; no need for those movie-palace stunts, those three-dimensional experiments when, bicolored glasses in place, we ducked the baseball flung at us or were frozen in our seats by the locomotive that roared out of the screen and over our heads. The TV image, by contrast, recedes into its box and includes us out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the ...sunset over the box house hills and cry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O mud For watermelons gutted to the crust,... Mud for the mole-tide harbor, mud for mouse, Mud for the armored Diesel fishing tubs that thud A year and a day to wind and tide; the dust Is on this skipping heart that shakes my house,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unlo...ad it, and drive it right out again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Horse, you flame thrower, you shark-mouthed man,... you laughter at the end of poems, you brown furry locomotive whipping the snow, I am a pale shadow beside you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »