<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=583955" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>With Stopwatch In Hand</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Berlin, 22 September 1916. <br>On 17 September one of our <br>submarines sank a fully <br>loaded enemy troop transport<br>in the Mediterranean. The <br>ship went down in 43 seconds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is how Death confronts Technology. <br>Can bravery contribute still to might?<br>The clock has stopped. The days have turned to night. <br>0 spare us, god of war, this agony!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That was a sacrifice to the machine<br>and not to you who hurtled from its hole.<br>Here stood an instrument without a soul – <br>your proud accomplice - with victorious mien.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There stands a mortar. He who built that gun <br>seeks shelter in a trench, a wretched coward. <br>While giants fall, by midgets overpowered, <br>the clockwork fights with time to stop its run.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take heed, and lake it easy. Otherwise <br>you'll see a cripple sit behind a desk<br>and push a button with a grin grotesque – <br>and London disappears. Surprise, surprise!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The storm clouds gather with destructive power. <br>What was the time when all this came to pass? <br>The eye sees dimly in the poison gas -<br>but hark the striking of the zero hour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With pranks like that to blow our world apart, <br>keep God that god from picking up the pieces<br>as Progress stalks with warhead and prosthesis, <br>stopwatch in hand, and glory in its heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Karl+Kraus">Karl Kraus</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=583955" data-title="With Stopwatch In Hand de Karl Kraus" data-description="Berlin, 22 September 1916. On 17 September one of our submarines sank a fully loaded enemy troop transport in the Mediterranean. The ship went down in 43 seconds. This is how Death confronts Technology. Can bravery contribute still to might?..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black