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With mordant symbolism, the ultimate products of the megamachine in Egypt were
colossal tombs [...] [and] the great [...] pyramids. [W]hat are they but the precise static equivalents of our own space rockets? Both devices for securing, at an extravagant cost, a passage to Heaven for the favored few.
— Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine: Volume I (1967)
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