A World to Win by Sinclair Upton

Author:Sinclair, Upton [Sinclair, Upton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical, Classics
ISBN: 9781934568620
Amazon: 1934568627
Goodreads: 11019960
Publisher: Frederick Ellis
Published: 1946-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

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On his way to the street was a newsstand loaded with every sort of reading matter that might tempt the public. So many new magazines that one couldn’t remember the names. The June issues, just out, new and neat, multicolored traps for the modern eye. Lanny stopped and glanced over the contents tables. There was a Bluebook, and he thought of Mary Morrow. Sure enough, there she was, the leading story, a title half English, half German: “The Herrenvolk.” He purchased a copy and carried it to his hotel room; before undressing he sat in an easy chair and read it through.

Another of those biting satires on the Nazis at home. Again the scene was a pension in a provincial town. This time the narrative centered about a peasant girl, the slavey of the establishment; her name was Greta, and Lanny could guess that she might be that kind-hearted girl who had risked her life by stealing out of the Pension Baumgartner and letting Laurel Creston know that the Gestapo were raiding her room and examining the contents of her Schreibtisch and her Gepäck. But Greta was merely a glass through which we could look into the souls of half a dozen greedy and jealous members of the master race who drove this poor creature about. They were hateful and they were cruel, and each and every one was imbued with the conviction that he or she was the most perfect product yet thrown off by a blindly functioning universe composed of material atoms in perpetual inevitable activity. (There was a professor who explained this while he grabbed the last slice of Leberwurst off a platter.)

So Lanny stopped thinking about a prospective museum curator and thought instead about a present fiction writer. Here was the woman who was intellectually his mate, and whom he ought to be thinking about marrying if he was going to marry at all! This woman had the real stuff in her, and she was doing her work in her own way, not asking anybody to teach her or to help her. She hadn’t waited for Lanny to reveal to her the fact that the world was out of joint, that it was full of parasites and exploiters, and that some of them had organized a criminal conspiracy against the modern world. This was the woman who deserved the prize—if Lanny was going to distribute prizes—or to be one!

So there started the old arguments all over again. If he should ask Laurel Creston to marry him and she consented, where would they live, and how? Where was the place in which Lanny could visit her with the certainty that nobody would recognize him? Where could she live and have any friends who wouldn’t be curious about a fashionable gentleman who might or might not be her husband? Here in this vast megalopolis was the best of all places to get lost in. But where would she get her mail and how would she cash her magazine

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