that raffish play with eloquence
I thought it was a synonym of rakish!
[...] London was the best-known American socialist of his time, and though he had run for mayor of Oakland on the Socialist ticket, and contributed financially to the party, and was about to publish a book called Revolution, he was coming under attack from his compatriots for his high living. He wa…
that the grand struggle for existence is a dream, a meaningless bubble in the meaningless weirs of the evolution of matter
Earlier that year, he had, after dropping out of the University of California, worked fourteen-hour days in a steam laundry. At eighteen he had shoveled coal in a power plant, sometimes on eighteen-hour shifts. At fifteen, when his father was injured and couldn’t work, he had put in twelve-hour day…
It requires an emendation
