Why not creep into his coffin at once?

[soso]

[The truest and most horrible claim /made for modern transport] is that it ‘annihilates space’.

It does.

* annihilate /əˈnīəˌlāt/ 어 나이어레잍 ; destroy utterly; obliterate.

It annihilates one of the most glorious gifts () we have been given.

It is a vile inflation //which lowers the value of distance,

so that a modern boy travels a hundred miles with less sense of liberation and pilgrimage and adventure

than his grandfather got from traveling ten.

Of course if a man hates space and wants it to be annihilated, that is another matter.

Why not creep into his coffin at once?

There is little enough space there.

From Surprised by Joy