"Every person fills out quite a few forms in his life, and each form contains an uncounted number of questions. The answer of just one person to one question in one form is already a thread linking that person forever with the local center of the dossier department. Each person thus radiates hundreds of such threads, which, all together, run into the millions. If these threads were visible, the heavens would be webbed with them, and if they had substance and reslience, the buses, streetcars and the people themselves would no longer be able to move; and no wind would ever again sweep the autumns leaves or scraps of newspaper down the streets. They were neither visible, nor material, but they were constantly felt by man."