What do I care how many
German dons tie themselves in knots about how this society began?
My only interest is about how soon it will end. Do you see those fat
white houses over in Park-lane, where your masters live?"
He assented and muttered something about concentrations of capital.
"Well," I said, "if the time ever comes when we all storm
those houses, will you tell me one thing? Tell me how we shall
do it without authority? Tell me how you will have an army
of revolt without discipline?"
For the first instant he was doubtful; and I had bidden him farewell,
and crossed the street again, when I saw him open his mouth and begin
to run after me. He had remembered something out of Pidge.
I escaped, however, and as I leapt on an omnibus I saw again the enormous
emblem of the Marble Arch. I saw that massive symbol of the modern mind:
a door with no house to it; the gigantic gate of Nowhere.
How I found the Superman
Readers of Mr. Bernard Shaw and other modern writers may be
interested to know that the Superman has been found. I found him;
he lives in South Croydon. My success will be a great blow to Mr. Shaw,
who has been following quite a false scent, and is now looking
for the creature in Blackpool; and as for Mr. Wells's notion
of generating him out of gases in a private laboratory, I always
thought it doomed to failure. I assure Mr.
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