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Sorokin's first intimate contact with the motivations behind men's action came in 1904, when he was swept up in the revolutionary spirit sweeping Russia. At the age of 15, he became a member of the Social Revolutionary Party--"morally one of the purest actions imaginable." It was an almost inevitable step for his peasant background combined with an extensive (if largely self-administered) education to give him an acute sense of the misery of the people. He was, in his own words, "a mongrel of mongrels," and often remonstrated to Lenin and Trosky...
...with not even the faintest hints of a new integration ... At times the emotion is so lacerating that the next step beyond would be either insanity or suicide, violence and nihilism; the death of the human personality. This is the message that modern art brings to us at its purest...
Enraged in advance, and feeling that he was already the dupe of a wily fraud, he took steps to improve his station. But just what steps he took are a matter of conjecture. Capp, a man with such an instinct for the dramatic that he sometimes lapses into purest fiction, swears that he got the copyright from the syndicate by a one-man strike: he quit drawing the strip for two weeks and thus reduced the syndicate to abject submission...
...loaf, the purest heart of wheat...
Without any doubt "The Lady's Not For Burning" is the product of a fresh, uninhibited, and exceedingly clever mind. The play is fascinating comedy of the purest sort...