The Machine Stops | The Mirror and The Light | Being extremely vulnerable | West Sussex canals
Anyone else rereading EM Forster’s amazingly prescient short story The Machine Stops? He writes of a universe where people live in cells connected to computers which provide access to food, medical needs, entertainment, socialisation etc. The population is described as having pasty faces and white blobby legs atrophied from lack of use. Sound familiar?
Ruth Lewis
Potters Bar, Hertfordshire
• John Crace said he couldn’t get past page 4 of The Mirror and the Light (Another tricky week for my mental health but a saucepan hat helped, 10 April). I wonder how many people have actually finished it? I have, so feel qualified to speculate – could it be that the gushing of the critics is akin to that of the dutiful citizens in The Emperor’s New Clothes?
Ursula Hutchinson
Newport, Isle of Wight
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