Journey To The End Of The Night
Here’s how it started. I’d never said a word. Not one word. It was Arthur Ganate that...
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The Dispossessed
Atro had once explained to him how this was managed, how the sergeants could give the privates orders, how the lieutenants could give the privates and the sergeants orders, how the captains… and so on and so on up to the generals, who could give everyone else orders and need take them from none, except the commander in chief. Shevek had listened with incredulous disgust. “You call that organization?” he had inquired. “You even call it discipline? But it is neither. It is a coercive mechanism of extraordinary inefficiency
The Dispossessed
“Men are physically stronger,” the doctor asserted with professional finality.
“Yes, often, and larger, but what does that matter when we have machines? And even when we don’t have machines, when we must dig with the shovel or carry on the back, the men maybe work faster – the big ones – but the women work longer… Often I have wished I was as tough as a woman.”
The Man Who Was Thursday
When Gabriel Syme found himself finally established in a chair, and opposite to him, fixed and...
Politics and the English Language
Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from...
