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Krap: You must not use your own time in making the men useless in
working hours. Last Saturday you were talking to them of the harm that
would be done to the workmen by our new machines and the new working methods. What makes you do that?
Aune: I do it for the good of the community.
Krap: That's curious, because Mr. Bernick says it is disorganising the
community.
Aune: My community is not Mr. Bernick's, Mr. Krap!
— Aug 14, 2026 09:50PM
working hours. Last Saturday you were talking to them of the harm that
would be done to the workmen by our new machines and the new working methods. What makes you do that?
Aune: I do it for the good of the community.
Krap: That's curious, because Mr. Bernick says it is disorganising the
community.
Aune: My community is not Mr. Bernick's, Mr. Krap!
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... tonight we begin a new era. The old era--with its affectation, its hypocrisy and its emptiness, its pretence of virtue and its miserable fear of public opinion--shall be for us like a museum, open for purposes of instruction; ...
— Aug 19, 2026 12:21PM
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On this occasion we offer our homage especially to the clear-sighted, indefatigable, unselfish--nay, self-sacrificing citizen who has taken the initiative in an undertaking which, we are assured on all sides, will give a powerful impetus to the temporal prosperity and welfare of our community.
— Aug 19, 2026 12:07PM
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Dina: Yes, I will be your wife.
Johan: Dina!
Dina: But first of all I want to work--to make something of myself--as
you have done. I am not going to be merely a thing that is taken.
Lona: Quite right--that is the way.
— Aug 18, 2026 11:00PM
Johan: Dina!
Dina: But first of all I want to work--to make something of myself--as
you have done. I am not going to be merely a thing that is taken.
Lona: Quite right--that is the way.
Mark André
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Ah, what we suffer under the tyranny of habit and custom!
— Aug 18, 2026 10:55PM
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Rummel: It means that the proudest moment of your life has come. A
procession of his fellow citizens is coming to do honour to the first
man of the town.
Bernick: What!
Rummel: In procession--with banners and a band! We ought to have had
torches too; but we did not like to risk that in this stormy weather.
There will be illuminations--and that always sounds well in the
newspapers.
— Aug 18, 2026 09:03PM
procession of his fellow citizens is coming to do honour to the first
man of the town.
Bernick: What!
Rummel: In procession--with banners and a band! We ought to have had
torches too; but we did not like to risk that in this stormy weather.
There will be illuminations--and that always sounds well in the
newspapers.
Mark André
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Hilmar: Is it? Why do you suppose these mercenary-minded creatures were so willing to go into the undertaking with you? Don't you suppose they are have scented profit for themselves--
— Aug 18, 2026 11:09AM
Mark André
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Lona: "The gift of Karsten Bernick," as it says over the gateway. You
seem to be responsible for the whole place here.
(Where have I heard that before?)
— Aug 16, 2026 10:55PM
seem to be responsible for the whole place here.
(Where have I heard that before?)
Mark André
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Hilmar: Anyhow, I have spent a sleepless night because of them. [ ... ]
Why couldn't he disappear for good and all? It really is insufferable
how hard some people are to kill.
Mrs. Bernick: My dear Hilmar, what are you saying.
Hilmar: Oh, nothing. But here this fellow escapes with a whole skin
from railway accidents and fights with California grizzlies and
Blackfoot Indians--has not even been scalped--. Ugh!
— Aug 16, 2026 10:51PM
Why couldn't he disappear for good and all? It really is insufferable
how hard some people are to kill.
Mrs. Bernick: My dear Hilmar, what are you saying.
Hilmar: Oh, nothing. But here this fellow escapes with a whole skin
from railway accidents and fights with California grizzlies and
Blackfoot Indians--has not even been scalped--. Ugh!