And so, whenever silence threatened to descend, they made a noise.
It wasn't a happy sound, of course, like the hubbub in a children's playground, but an angry, ill-tempered din that grew louder every day.
It had ceased to matter that people should enjoy their work and take pride in it; on the contrary, enjoyment merely slowed them down.
All that mattered was to get through as much work as possible in the shortest possible time,
so notices to that effect were prominently displayed in every factory and office building.
They read: TIME IS PRECIOUS - DON'T WASTE IT! or: TIME IS MONEY - SAVE IT!
Similar notices hung above business executives' desks and in boardrooms, in doctors' consulting rooms,
shops, restaurants and department stores - even in schools and kindergartens.
No one was left out. Last but not least, the appearance of the city itself changed more and more.
Old buildings were pulled down and replaced with modern ones devoid of all the things that were now thought superfluous.
No architect troubled to design houses that suited the people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range.
It was far cheaper and, above all, more timesaving to make them identical.
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