“Americans are queer people: they can’tplay. Americans rush to work as soon as they group up. They want their work assoon as they wake. It is a stimulant—the only one they are not afraid of. Theyused to open their offices at ten o’clock; then at nine; then at eight; then atseven. Now they never shut them. Every business in America is turning into anopen-all-day-and-night business. They eat all night, dance all night, buildbuildings all night, make a noise all night. They can’t play. They try to, butcan’t. They turn football into a fight, baseball into a lawsuit, and yachtinginto machinery. They can’t play. The little children can’t play; they usemechanical toys instead—toy cranes, hoisting toy loads, toy machinery spreadinga toy industrial depression of infantile dullness. They grown-up people can’tplay; they use a mechanical gymnasium and a clockwork horse. They can’t laugh;they hire a comedian and watch him laugh.” What’s the most prominenttransitional way in this paragraph?