the car and the elevator have been locked in a “secret war” for over a century,
with cars making it possible for people to spread horizontally
(水平地),
and elevators pushing them toward life in close groups of towering vertical
(垂直的)
columns. [2] If we tend to ignore the significance of elevators,
it might be because riding in them tends to be such a brief,
boring,
and even awkward experience — one that can involve unexpectedly meeting people with whom we have nothing in common,
and an unpleasant awareness of the fact that we're hanging from a cable in a long passage. [3] In a new book,
Lifted,
German journalist and cultural studies professor Andreas Bernard directed all his attention to this experience,
studying the origins of elevator and its relationship to humankind and finding that riding in an elevator has never been a totally comfortable experience. “After 150 years,
we are still not used to it,” Bernard said. “We still have not exactly learned to cope with the mixture of closeness and displeasure.” That mixture,
according to Bernard,
sets the elevator ride apart from just about every other situation we find ourselves in as we go about our lives. [4] Today,
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