Class of '29 by Orrie Lashin;Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
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page 49 of 154 (31%)
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KEN. On your charity.
BISHOP. You are my son. What little I give you is yours by right. KEN. What right? I'm not a child, nor a cripple. I'm nearly thirty years old. BISHOP. These are not normal times. KEN. They are normal for me. BISHOP. Be patient a little longer. Our system is not perfect, but it's the best the world has known. It has been responsible for all our progress. KEN. We're not even aiming at progress, only at recovery; only trying to gain back something we had in the past. BISHOP. But how can you think there is progress in Russia? It's a slave state; a tyranny. Freedom is essential to progress. KEN. I don't want freedom. I want a chance to work. I want my share.... Other people have their share, and they have dogs. I don't want dogs, but I want a right to have them. BISHOP. Your soul is poisoned with envy. KEN. It's a short life, dad, and mine is half gone already. There is beauty; I want to enjoy it. There are good things; I want some of them. Disease and death we can't help, but poverty we _can_ |
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