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This week's Final Word comes from a French author concerned about the industrial revolution's power to derail human beings:

"What did it matter what victims it crushed in its path! Was it not, after all, heading into the future, heedless of the blood that was spilled? And on it sped through the darkness, driverless, like some blind, deaf beast turned loose upon the field of death, onward and onward, laden with its freight of cannon-fodder, with these soldiers, already senseless with exhaustion and drink, still singing away."

The winner of last week's competition, who correctly identified Martin Amis's London Fields , is Sarah Spencer of Westminster College, Oxford.