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A review by average_reading_enjoyer
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
5.0
what an incredible work of literature. one of the most cutting and potent critiques of liberalism that i’ve read. the threat of the same ecological and economic disasters described here looms large in our own time. and we have not heeded its lessons. after all, the Monster has to have profits all the time; and if the Monster stops growing, it dies…and we love the Monster, don’t we, folks?
“burn coffee for fuel in the ships. burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
there is a crime here that grows beyond denunciation. there is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolise. there is a failure here that topples all our success. the fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. and the children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. and the coroners must fill in the certificates - died of malnutrition - because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.”
“burn coffee for fuel in the ships. burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
there is a crime here that grows beyond denunciation. there is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolise. there is a failure here that topples all our success. the fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. and the children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. and the coroners must fill in the certificates - died of malnutrition - because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.”