The street in town -- a concrete sluiceway of
noise, of commerce, of ceaseless traffic where horns blatted, spinning wheels
shrilled -- At the city end of our road
clamorous people swarmed and machinery yammered.
The
Secret Woods
Research
and Development
by Lester Mattison
Modern. Modernizing,
the
city is
interminably in
process, perishing
even as it
progresses,
simultaneously
presenting people
with perils and
protection.
