Excerpt from The Things We Are: A NovelMr. Boston let the typewritten notes of a speech on "Liberalism and Unemployment" fall to the floor. "My God!" he said, and smiled wryly. It was not his own speech, although he had composed it. Precisely in the middle of one-half of a round gate-legged table stood a portable typewriter, unconscious of the monstrous thing to which it had given birth. Over the other half, its edge making an exact diameter, was spread a white tablecloth, bearing the remains of an unexciting lunch. The glass water-jug was most conspicuous; it dominated the pale yet massive cottage loaf, the banana-skins and the pot of marmalade. It was Sunday.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.