The peasants don’t like hearing how they’ve been used, paying for land that will go back to Landis the day they lose their first crop. They refuse to believe they’re getting tricked into building wealth for the masters of this town.” “No man wants to hear he has been a fool.” “But they hear it, and still they persist. Landis passes around his bill of sale, this egalitarian Vineland where every man stands an equal chance, and they lap it up like cats at the dish. They are all for the great captain, while he indentures them and eats their souls and property. Somehow he gets them to side against
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Who would ever believe a similar con-man would also occupy the Oval office-- twice? And yet... "They refuse to believe they’re getting tricked into building wealth for the masters of this town.” "...and they lap it up like cats at the dish. They are all for the great captain, while he indentures them and eats their souls and property. Somehow he gets them to side against their own.”
As I read Kingsolver's novel, I wait for the catastrophe.
