THE BOURGEOIS ELEMENT AND BACKGROUND
ISN'T it simply wonderful about D'Annunzio enlisting as a common soldier and digging trenches along with the Duc D'Abruzzi and those other Italian poets? Or was it D'Abruzzi? Anyhow, it was one of those poets that were always talking about the Superman.
Although, I must say, one doesn't hear so much about the Superman these days, does one? The Superman is going out, you know.
One of my friends—she's quite an advanced thinker, too, and belongs to our little group—told me a year or so ago, "Hermione, I will never marry until I can find a Superman!"
"Of course, that is all right, my dear," I said to her, "but how about Genetics?"
Because, you know, the slogan of our little group—that is, one of the slogans—is "Genetics or Spinsterhood!"
It made her quite angry for some reason. She pursed her lips up and acted shocked.
"It is all very well, Hermione," she said, "to
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