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The Intoxicated
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“Things will be different afterward,” she said. “Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We’ll have new rules and new ways of living. Maybe there’ll be a law not to live in houses, so then no one can hide from anyone else, you see.”
“Maybe there’ll be a law to keep all seventeen-year-old girls in school learning sense,” he said, standing up.
“There won’t be any schools,” she said flatly. “No one will learn anything. To keep from getting back where we are now.”
“Well,” he said, with a little laugh. “You make it sound very interesting. Sorry I won’t be there to see it.” He stopped, his shoulder against the swinging door into the dining-room. He wanted badly to say something adult and scathing, and yet he was afraid of showing her that he had listened to her, that when he was young people had not talked like that. “If you have any trouble with your Latin,” he said finally, “I’ll be glad to give you a hand.”
― The Intoxicated
“Maybe there’ll be a law to keep all seventeen-year-old girls in school learning sense,” he said, standing up.
“There won’t be any schools,” she said flatly. “No one will learn anything. To keep from getting back where we are now.”
“Well,” he said, with a little laugh. “You make it sound very interesting. Sorry I won’t be there to see it.” He stopped, his shoulder against the swinging door into the dining-room. He wanted badly to say something adult and scathing, and yet he was afraid of showing her that he had listened to her, that when he was young people had not talked like that. “If you have any trouble with your Latin,” he said finally, “I’ll be glad to give you a hand.”
― The Intoxicated
