The civilisation and social structure of our country, right… - Gerald Gould

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The civilisation and social structure of our country, rightly or wrongly, take for granted that a few people shall have a lot of money and a lot of power, and great many people very little money and very little power. But the individuals, and particularly the labouring individuals, who create and compose our civilisation and society, are beginning to cease to take this state of things for granted.

Gerald Gould

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(9 April 1885 – 2 November 1936) was an English poet, journalist, book reviewer, essayist, and fiction editor. In 1914 he and his wife were among the founders of the .

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I was one of the first in this country—I rather think I was quite the first—to hail in print the genius of Mr. Joyce, when, many years ago, he put forth a quiet little volume of short stories called " ." I saw in his bleak and bitter realism a reading of life.

They kept a bird— Poor bird !—in a cage ;
Till—so I have heard— Without need, without rage,
Cheerfully, coldly, They let it flit,
And more than boldly Murdered it. Since the law of nature Is danger and pain,
The obedient creature Did not complain,
But left as token to everybody
The wing broken And the breast bloody.

... , years before he died, was hidden from most of us in the mist of his own method.

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