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     I waked this day in a horrid swet. Not only were machines in the air making terrible fumes and blotting out the sun and making all the land hot withal but other machines were crawling the earth, making more fumes and unimaginable noise.

     “I cried: ‘Wherefore go ye in those terrible engines of destruction’ and the people said: ‘We go under the River Tyne because we are unhappy where we are and we ever have to try and go elsewhere but sometimes our journey takes too much time’.

     “So I said: ‘Whyfor cannot ye go where ye want whenever ye will?’ and they said: ‘Because there are too many of us and the tunnel is full so we have to build another’. So I said: ‘But if there be too many of ye why seek more?’ and they said “Because God willed that appetite shall always be assuaged until there be no more to be eaten and we all die’.

     “But I said ‘Tis not so! Ye do not have to travel to far places for insignificant reasons so that other people who need to go, cannot. Ye can order your lives so that ye are happy where ye are......’. But they would not listen.

     “A huge machine appeared and ripped up houses and land in my beloved Jarrow so that people could be even more unhappy on the other side of the River and people already unhappy on the other side could be more unhappy still on this side. And I wept.

     “Beloved friends: let us hope this terrible dream never comes to pass!”