Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exerc...ises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply.... We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, "How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Meanwhile the angel, dressed for laughs as a plasterer,... puts a match to whatever's lying in the grate: broken scaffolds, empty cocoons, the paraphernalia of unseen change.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »