Historical fact: People stopped being human in 1913. That was
the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers
adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers
rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies
to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation
has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so
that we plug right into joysticks and remotes, to repetitive
motions of a hundred kinds. -- Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex --
Have a great Monday!