The Machine Image
The imagery of "Lionel was a machine" implies that we as a society strive to do our best in our every day efforts. We tend to be machines as well, like Merble in Vonnegut's "Lionel was a machine. Tralfamadorians say that all creatures and plants in this Universe are machines."
I didn't think of it that way, but that makes sense when you say we are machines striving to do our best. I thought of it just relating humans to machines because we have different parts in our bodies that make us live like machines have gears and things to make them work also, but this makes so much sense too!
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