i need 2 qoutes from the pedestrian. so if anyonew has 2, please tell me!!!

Oh, alll riiight!

"And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared behind the windows."

And later:

"The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multi-colored lights touching their faces, but never really touching them."

Both beautifully summarize the story's theme of a society succumbing to a technology that nullifies imagination and seduces us with a promise that we'd be required to expend little to no physical effort. In the day of "The Pedestrian" this applied to television; now it also encompasses (gasp) the Internet, where many sit for hours before "faint firefly light," endlessly clicking away....