"Once upon a time people gloried in the vastness of the new perspectives, and built themselves dream-houses devoted to the worship of cog wheels and tensile strength. But modernity was always haunted by the idea that this moment of dreaming, of infinite possibility, was over."
T. J. Clark, Modernism, Postmodernism, and Steam, 2002
T. J. Clark, Modernism, Postmodernism, and Steam, 2002