Pneumatic Institute: "Rules of the Rich" (from In the Time of Dearth, published 1795)
1)
Abolish gravy, soups and second courses.
2)
Buy no starch when wheat is dear.
3)
Destroy all useless dogs.
4)
Give nothing to people who are idle or riotous or keep useless dogs.
Think of an oasis, madam. It is the city that has ruined man, the greed, but in the desert a date is for everyone, the water for anyone, and the climate paradise.
He was there, surveying his whole life. Everything he had achieved, the wealth, even the luxury, that he had worked so hard to accumulate, seemed as nothing.
WE
We, who are capable of poisoning the clear water of oases. Who take pleasure in the pain of others, who must be right, however cruel, however insane. We, who can kill another with envy and pure malice.
To get rid of everything, to only have one change of clothes, to live a simple life, unaccompanied by objects.
In the darkness of the cinema, a waking dream.
