The smell of hot popcorn drifted upward from.... : Quote by Mark O'Connell

“ The smell of hot popcorn drifted upward from the concourse below, lingering in the warm Californian air like an atmospheric irony, and a Jumbotron directly in front of me displayed a blandly handsome announcer seated behind a curved desk emblazoned with DARPA’s logo: a sports broadcast mise-en-scène from some speculative future, vaguely fascist, in which the machinery of national defense had become a spectacle of mass entertainment. ”

Mark O'Connell
  • From : To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs
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