The city seemed to stretch about them like some pitiless abyss of geologic time.

-William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, The difference Engine (1991)

Where Will We Live After Earth?

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it. 

-Christopher Morley, Inward Ho! (1923)

1939 World Fair Documentary

Why Is it Impossible to Stop Thinking, to Render the Mind a Complete Blank?