The Last Generation

An orderly crowd gathers beneath the red flags of Birmingham Town Hall—and every man carries a rifle. From his perch on an electric standard, a bewildered traveller hears them prepare to march on London.

In James Elroy Flecker’s vision of the future, a mysterious Wind carries an unnamed narrator through scenes of a civilization that calls itself progress. In conquered Britain, Joshua Harris sits as king and proclaims that no child may ever be born again: his people, he declares, are the last generation, freed from work and want. Yet the silent faces in the great hall suggest that comfort is not the same as hope. And when a German rifle club makes mutual extermination its pastime, the future looks stranger still. What will mankind do with a world in which it has arranged for no tomorrow?

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