The machine stops / E.M. Forster -- The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma / Franz Kafka -- Notes on a dream / Theodor Herzl -- The book of the machine / Samuel Butler -- Paradise (to be) regained / Henry David Thoreau -- The tailor of Gloucester / Beatrix Potter -- Out of the fountain / Doris Lessing -- On intelligence / Paul Valery -- Aphorisms / Albert Einstein -- Thecreation / from the book of Genesis -- The nightingale / Hans Christian Andersen