The Woman Possessed with a Divinity, fragment 227, as translated in Menander: The Principal Fragments (1921) by Francis Greenleaf Allinson; this is one of the earliest occurrences of the phrase which became famous in its Latin form as "Deus ex machina."
ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεὸς [ἡμῖν] ἐπεφάνηϛ
“What in God’s name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?”
continuity (42) “And Say Which Seed Will Grow“
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
"The Origins of the Beat Generation" in Playboy (June 1959)
"Machine (new original song by Ysabella Brave" (3 November 2007) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc5qbh23MNY
“First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then …? Then you serve machines.”
continuity (14) "The Right Man For The Job"
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
1 Corinthians 6:19
First Epistle to the Corinthians
On the root of sin - "TB Joshua Defends Oyakhilome" http://www.herald.ng/tb-joshua-defends-oyakhilome-dont-disagree-peoples-understanding-differs/#rGUiGU1sJDEPXQC4.99 The Herald, Nigeria (March 23 2014)
Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter II
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Context: A man’ s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
