Questions that needed an answer.

Questions that needed an answer.

A dear, sweet friend of mine wrote me a letter.  In it she explained that not only did she enjoy reading Pedestal, but she had used it in her high school English class as a free reading assignment (with a project).  She was writing to me to ask specific questions for a Book Adventure Badge for American Heritage Girls (a scouting program).  I thought the answers might be interesting to more than just one reader, so I have published the results for you here.

Dickens on technology:

“I admire machinery…and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us.  But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.” from The Wreck of the Golden Mary by...

Another one, because I love this one, too

The Telephone Robert Frost, 1874 – 1963 “When I was just as far as I could walk From here to-day, There was an hour All still When leaning with my head against a flower I heard you talk. Don’t say I didn’t, for I heard you say— You spoke from that flower on the...