A Man Takes A Drink, The Drink

On The Whole, With Scandalous Exceptions, Democracy Has Given The Ordinary Worker More Dignity Than He Ever Had.

Except For Half A Dozen In Each Town The Citizens Are Proud Of That Achievement Of Ignorance Which Is So Easy To Come By. To Be 'intellectual' Or 'artistic' Or, In Their Own Word, To Be 'highbrow,' Is To Be Priggish And Of Dubious Virtue.

Men Die, But The Plutocracy Is Immortal; And It Is Necessary That Fresh Generations Should Be Trained To Its Service.

There Are Dozens Of Young Poets And Fictioneers Most Of Them A Little Insane In The Tradition Of James Joyce, Who, However Insane They May Be, Have Refused To Be Genteel And Traditional And Dull.

People Read Fiction For Emotion-not Information