'Of course, the trouble is, you see, that about half the young men in Europe are wishing the same thing.'
'Let's hope they are. Then perhaps it'll happen.'
'My dear old chap, no! Once is enough, surely.'
Gordon walked on, fretfully. 'This life we live nowadays! It's not life, it's stagnation, death–in–life. Look at all these b****y houses, and the meaningless people inside them! Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.'
'But where you make your mistake, don't you see, is in talking as if all this was incurable. This is only something that's got to happen before the proletariat take over.'
'Oh, Socialism! Don't talk to me about Socialism.'
'You ought to read Marx, Gordon, you really ought. Then you'd realize that this is only a phase. It can't go on for ev
