Wordie: Poverty: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 11 months ago

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:51:12 +0000

Oh, but it's entertaining! Please, quote all you want. :-) And Stephen Crane's a great choice, too.

Comment by npydyuan, 11 months ago

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:42:45 +0000

Yes... I thoroughly enjoyed it. I love the way the guys harangue and cuss at each other, but it all still sounds so civilised. Anyway, I finished it, so I'll stop inundating all these words with Crane quotations, for a while at least.

Comment by reesetee, 11 months ago

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:24:46 +0000

Npydyuan, let me guess--you're reading The Third Violet on Project Gutenberg! ;-)

Sounds like fun. I may do the same.

Comment by npydyuan, 11 months ago

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:51:03 +0000

"Poverty isn't anything to be ashamed of."

"Great heavens! Have you the temerity to get off that old nonsensical remark? Poverty is everything to be ashamed of. Did you ever see a person not ashamed of his poverty? Certainly not. Of course, when a man gets very rich he will brag so loudly of the poverty of his youth that one would never suppose that he was once ashamed of it. But he was."

Stephen Crane, The Third Violet

Comment by oroboros, about 1 year ago

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:20:17 +0000

Proper revolutionary "poverty" is not in simply not having useless stuff, but in not even wanting it. "Jeeze", said Fred Everybody, "That's asking a lot!"
--Jan Cox