- What did you hear?
- Hear is not the right word. I became a telephone. Edith was the electrical conversation that went through me.
- Well, what was it, what was it?
- Machinery.
- Machinery?
- Ordinary eternal machinery.
- And?
- Ordinary eternal machinery.
- Is that all you're going to say?
- Ordinary eternal machinery like the grinding of the stars.
- That's better.
- That was a distortion of the truth, which, I see, suits you very well. I distorted the truth to make it easy for you. The truth is: ordinary eternal machinery.
(Leonard Cohen)