May 7, 2017

E.B. White on visions of the Future





"When you can’t breathe through your nose, Tomorrow seems strangely like the day before yesterday.”


E.B. White, on how it felt to visit the 1939 World's Fair ("Building the World of Tomorrow") with a cold














Quoted by Jill Lepore, The New Yorker,  "On Our Won Devices," 2008





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