The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.
Joseph RothAnyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96
Joseph RothA moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.
Joseph Roth