Dorothy Scarborough

Samuel Butler suggests that machines will be the real rulers in the coming ages, that man will be preserved only to feed and care for the machines

I can’t imagine how you did it,’ she cried. ‘I didn’t have no time to imagine. It’s what folks imagines that gen’rally ruins ‘em. It’s like maggots in the brain. My hands and feet had to keep movin’ so fast that my head didn’t have no chance to contradict ‘em.

the world loves a ghost, yet we like to take our ghosts vicariously, preferably in fiction. We'd rather see than be one.