Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Grudgingly And Suspiciously

James Albert Bonsack's cigarette rolling machine, invented in 1880 and patented in 1881The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug -- that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.

-- George Orwell (1903-1950), novelist

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