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more unlovely snowstorm. The powdery granules ricocheted from the window, performed looping acrobatics at the wind's whimsy, and dove to a moist and grimy doom in the slush churned up by crawling traffic. Ed Rucks, staring moodily from the next window, demanded, "Why do people insist on driving automobiles into Manhattan?" Darzek grinned at him. "If taxicabs weren't extinct, I'd say you were talking like a cabdriver." "I'm serious. In this enlightened year of 1988, when our fair city is peppered with trans-locals, and a person can go from anywhere to anyv\'here at the drop of a half dollar-" "You're thinking of the automobile as a means of transportation," Darzek told him. "It isn't, except incidentally. Its chief function is play. People drive cars because they like to drive them." "In Manhattan, in a snowstorm?" "Automobiles fulfill a very important psychological need. In an age when man is completely at the mercy of the machine, he must have one machine all his own that he can pretend he's the master of. His ego demands it. So he drives a car." Rucks said doubtfully, "Well, maybe." "I take it that you think we're stumped." "I know we're stumped. I've never seen an accumulation o

Who reads Watchers of the Dark?

Author

Biggle, Lloyd, 1923-2002

Language

EN

Category

science

Subjects

Science Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.8 / 5 (59 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14