News from Nowhere/Chapter XIII

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News from Nowhere
by William Morris
Chapter XIII: CONCERNING POLITICS
178559News from Nowhere — Chapter XIII: CONCERNING POLITICSWilliam Morris


Said I: "How do you manage with politics?"

Said Hammond, smiling: "I am glad that it is of me that you ask that question; I do believe that anybody else would make you explain yourself, or try to do so, till you were sickened of asking questions. Indeed, I believe I am the only man in England who would know what you mean; and since I know, I will answer your question briefly by saying that we are very well off as to politics,—because we have none. If ever you make a book out of this conversation, put this in a chapter by itself, after the model of old Horrebow's Snakes in Iceland."

"I will," said I.