Word: machineâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...promise are already cursed with ease?seeming tied to the same narrow slice of life where every one is more or less of a gentleman. True, the soil is coming into its own somewhat?and the men of the soil?but not the machine and the men of the machine??? nor the vast class who make amusement in one way or another for the multitude, excepting for authors, painters, sculptors and musicians (who have even broken into the movies). The others remain outside, a monstrous and interesting regiment...
...Significance. A rapid, interesting story, revealing, with satire and veracity, the hidden, unacknowledged mechanics of our governmental machine???centered about a typically American character not much dealt with in recent fiction, the vivacious modern buccaneer who neither saves his pennies nor makes any genuine contribution to the world, but is enormously successful nevertheless...
...ADDING MACHINE???The utmost in expressionism. Mr. Zero kills his employer, is executed and looks over the hereafter. He finds heaven lacking in respectability. A fantastic study of a stunted soul...