That was occuring and accelerating as the nation entered the 1960's.Īs Ethan considers his schemes, he says, "A crime is something someoneĮlse commits". However, Steinbeck had clearly perceived the general decline in morality To question the likelihood of a college graduate turned grocery clerk (lawyer/technicians The ease with which the morally upright Ethan slips into a life of schemingĪnd crime is not particularly believable. In short order Ethan is narcing on neighbors, betraying Danny, taking Help in getting the property away from Danny. Holds a piece of property that developers are desparate to get ahold ofįor their planned airport. Meanwhile, Danny Taylor, his childhood friend & now the town drunk, She sends a representativeįrom a food wholesaler to Ethan & he is offered a kickback if he'll
The town vixen, Margie Young-Hunt, provides a powerful pull to kick $6000 she inherited upon her brother's death. Mary, for instance, wants him to invest the Marullo.Įthan's wife, Mary, and his two children, Ellen and Allen, push him Reduced to being a grocery clerk in the employ of an immigrant, Mr. Of the family fortune & Ethan himself lost the family store, he is But now times have changed & after his father lost most In years past, his family was one of the most important Sadly, no one was listening.Įthan Allen Hawley is a Harvard educated descendent of New England shippingĬaptains. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.This book reads like a howl of pain from a man who did not like where And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space.
In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon.
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