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222 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1888
Does it then really seem to you that human nature is insensible to any motives save fear of want and love of luxury, that you should expect security and equality of livelihood to leave them without possible incentives to effort? (63)Unfortunately, it turns out that the answer to this question is yes.
I should be a fool not to know that I cannot seem to you as other men of your own generation do, but as some strange uncanny being, a stranded creature of an unknown sea, whose forlornness touches your compassion despite its grotesqueness."- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward
and I can't remember if I read or dreamed about them-- David Berman, “World: Series”
a sect on the Mayflower called the Strangers-
four or five adults who gathered in the hold
and spoke to no one through the three month passage.
When the boats landed on the beach
they walked into the North American forest
and were never seen again.