drivewheel

Updated: May 6, 2025

If a Cog in a big locomotive could take a day off and go around and watch the drivewheel and pistons watch the smoke coming out of the smokestack and the water scooping up from between the rails watch the three hundred faces in the train looking out of the windows and the great world booming by, and if the Cog could then say, "I belong with all this and I am helping and making it possible for all these people to do and to have all this!"

Gerald Stanley Lee - The Ghost in the White House : Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want