Monologue

Jack Monologue from The Machine

From The Machine by Upton Sinclair

male · contemplative · 42 sec

(Realizing that he had said something awkward.) I think I was the first Socialist he'd ever met. He had just gotten to the stage of despair. He'd started out with a long program of reforms... and he was going to educate the people to them... one by one, until he'd made them all effective. I said to him: "By the time you've got the attention of the public on reform number thirty... what do you suppose the politicians will have been doing with reform number one?"

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