![]() ![]() ![]() She speaks to her son, Kuno, via The Machine, temporarily emerging from isolation to her dismay, he has a request: “I want to see you not through The Machine … I want to speak to you not through the wearisome Machine …” Vashti cannot contemplate a journey through the surface of the earth, which she describes as “only dust and mud”. While lecturing, she turns on her isolation switch when she finishes she turns it off again, and immediately all the accumulations of the last three minutes burst upon her … what was the new food like? Could she recommend it … etc.’ She’s been lecturing from underground most of her life – ‘the clumsy system of public gatherings had been long since abandoned neither Vashti nor her audience stirred from their rooms…’ In a sealed room, somewhere within the bowels of the earth, a woman named Vashti is lecturing to her unseen listeners. ![]()
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