The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 2 (May 1, 1934.)

The Dumb Waiter

The Dumb Waiter.

In a mass Man is in a mess; singly he is singular, and each man alone is alone. His tragedy is that, in the midst of multitudes, he is alone. You see the symptoms of his psychological segregation in the street, in the tram, in the mart, in the palaces of pleasure, in the haunts of the great and the seats of the mighty. He may fabricate the fiction of fellowship but, nevertheless, he is a lone wolf parked in the pack. He thinks alone, he lives alone and he dies alone; for no words have been minted, sufficiently subtle to imprint his impressions on the mental matrix of his mates.

“An optimistic illusion.”

“An optimistic illusion.”