Alexander Kuprin. Moloch (№ 238339)

Telegraph, telephone, stoddartii trains, you say, reduced the distance to a minimum' - destroyed it... Time rise in price, but soon it will start to turn night to day, for it felt the need for such a double life. The deal, demanding as much as earlier months, now ends in five minutes. But it is a hell of and this speed does not satisfy our impatience... Soon we will see each other on the wire at a distance of hundreds and thousands of miles!.. Meanwhile, only fifty years ago, our forefathers, going from village to province, slowly served a moleben and went off with a stock, sufficient for a polar expedition... And we are rushing headlong forward and forward, deafened by the roar and crackle of monstrous machines and confused by this frantic racing, with irritated nerves, perverted tastes and thousands of new diseases...