Mechanization is mostly in the form of tractorization, though some of the households have gone in for modern agricultural equipment for harvesting and threshing.

The contours of their bodies […] had dissolved at the edges, resembling, as it occurred to me, said Austerlitz, the frayed outlines of the human hand shown in the fluidal pictures and electrographs taken by Louis Draget in Paris around the turn of the century.

[…] coders discovered they could better recognize the words they used for variables and commands when the words were intercapped.

And till we can recover that, we shall never be able to have a Government firm-seated and sure-handed.