Word: erewhon
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...operate textile bobbins, raccoons to run railways. While they worked it would be in the employer's best interest to keep them healthy and fat; when business slackened, the meat of those laid off could be sold at a discount. Citizens of Samuel Butler's mythical Erewhon outlawed and destroyed all but the most primitive mechanisms. Scraps of the forbidden machines were kept as museum pieces to warn Erewhonians what not to invent...
...year period from Samuel Butler's Erewhon to Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, writers have thrown tons of literary monkey wrenches into capitalism's mass-production machinery-with about the same effect as a man kicking the sideboard he stubbed his toe on. Machine-hating writers still evoke sympathetic response, but another school has lately gained ground...
...till Pauli's death. Back in England again, Butler settled down in London to read at the British Museum, write, wait for the comfortable inheritance which would come to him when his father died. All Butler's books were published at his own expense, and only one (Erewhon) made money. All of them annoyed or offended his father, but Butler was careful not to plague his parent to the point of disinheriting...
Walter Jr. once declared that not since he could remember had he ever wanted to do anything except publish books. When he founded Cheshire House, Inc., during his sophomore year at Dartmouth, the first book he published was Samuel Butler's Erewhon because Erewhon showed "that there are other things in life besides machines and tools...
...ball, to throw a baseball, to cast a heavy fishing-slug for distance in the surf -manly exercises all. But does the missile fly farthest from rod, arm, club or bow? Which engine is superior in speed, in accuracy? A hypothetical question, surely; one that might be debated i Erewhon on Midsummer Day, with Walter Travis expatiating kindly to Amos Rusie, Izaak Walton put-tnig in a gnarled, shy word, and the laughter of Robin Hood foaming clear and soft like the ale in his cup. Or fancy Lou Gehrig, Yankee first baseman, Leo Diegel, Canadian open golf champion, Edwin...