The Chatto Book of DissentMichael Rosen, David Widgery This is an anthology of verbal protest, whether avowedly political or quietly subversive, against war, racism, slavery, chauvinism, censorship, injustice and oppression in all their guises. It ranges in place and time from the Ancient Egyptian Satire of the Trades to Vaclav Havel's Memorandum, in form from Chaucerian verse to Parisian graffiti, and embraces protest songs, radio broadcasts, the text of seditious posters and the transcripts of trials; Charlotte Bronte and Lenny Bruce, Aesop and Aborigines. |
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... don't excite me . You scare me with your hopeless . Asleep when you walk . Too hot to think . You big awful . You don't match me . You burnt out . You too big sky . You make me a dot in the nowhere . You laugh with your big healthy ...
... don't excite me . You scare me with your hopeless . Asleep when you walk . Too hot to think . You big awful . You don't match me . You burnt out . You too big sky . You make me a dot in the nowhere . You laugh with your big healthy ...
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... don't know what hard times mean , While you're living in your mansion , you don't know what hard times mean ; Poor working man's wife is starving ; your wife is living like a queen . Please listen to my pleadin ' , ' cause I can't stand ...
... don't know what hard times mean , While you're living in your mansion , you don't know what hard times mean ; Poor working man's wife is starving ; your wife is living like a queen . Please listen to my pleadin ' , ' cause I can't stand ...
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... don't own that . ' " That's all right , provided you don't use any of my trees for your canoe , or build it on my land , or use my beach for a landing place , and do your fishing far enough away so you don't interfere with my riparian ...
... don't own that . ' " That's all right , provided you don't use any of my trees for your canoe , or build it on my land , or use my beach for a landing place , and do your fishing far enough away so you don't interfere with my riparian ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Words Must be Given their True Meaning | 75 |
Opulence is always the Result of Theft | 173 |
Copyright | |
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American Anon arms believe BESSIE better Birdbrain Bishop of Hereford blood Church colliery Communist cops to dinner DADA dead death Democracy Wall dissent Doc Daneeka E. M. Forster earth enemy England English Eulespiegle Excerpt eyes face father feel fight Flann O'Brien force freedom friends FRONDOSO fucking Fuente Ovejuna girl give hands head heart human Ilda jail JUDGE killed King labour land laugh Lenny Bruce liberty live look Lords Lubec Mary means MENGO Menocchio mind Miss America mother murder nation never night O-Level oppressed pigs police political poor priest prison Ptydepe reprinted by permission rich SCUM slavery slaves society soldiers Spartacus speak talk tell there's things thou thought thousand William Cobbett woman women word workers Yossarian
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