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On gadgets he doted with a kind of dazed, superstitious delight. Electric devices enchanted him. Plastics swept him off his feet. He had a deep admiration for the zipper. But the devoutly plugged-in clock would make nonsense of his mornings…The frame of his spectacles would snap in mid-bridge…The zipper a gentleman depends on most would come loose….
And he still did not know that he was on the wrong train.