Description

• One of the all-time classic dystopian novels, scarily still all-too relevant!
• With striking cover illustration showing mechanical dog by Bruce Pennington
• Vintage Paperback [Corgi Books, London, 1972]; 158, [2 Publisher’s book list] pages; illustrated card wraps, lightly rubbed & bumped at extremities, faint library stamps on fore-edge & block base, an excellent copy

My uncle says there used to be front porches. And people sat there sometimes at night, talking when they wanted to talk, rocking, and not talking when they didn’t want to talk. Sometimes they just sat there and thought about things, turned things over. My uncle says the architects got rid of the front porches because they didn’t look well. But my uncle says that was merely rationalising it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn’t want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life. People talked too much. And they had time to think. So they ran off with the porches.

-Clarisse, p66