Philip Dru: Administrator
From Plastic Tub
A self-described utopianist novel, written in 1912 by Woodrow Wilson's chief advisor Edward Mandell House, and edited by a still-drunk Ernest P. Whitlow, the oft-maligned but more frequently celebrated alter-ego of Barnabas Whitley, himself an alter-ego of Mavis Turnbrow, Verna Cable's nanny. They were all creative in those days, down to the milk delivery man. The invasion of Italy in the seond world war....many a-grandfather saw the boots of other young guys jutting out from dirt banks, red clay, dripping, nationalistic fervor drowned out by the "whore's breath, death and war, that is, and then again, hidden and recoiling, it makes its' defensive point." -- Johannsen, 1952.
Excerpted
After General Dru had given orders for the care of the wounded and the disposition of the prisoners, he dismissed his staff and went quietly out into the starlight. He walked among the dead and wounded and saw that everything possible was being done to alleviate suffering. Feeling weary he sat for a moment upon a dismembered gun. He swatted at a fly at the wool collar of his neck.
Pondering such recent innovations as the radio, the telephone, the cinema, and the Vril-ernergy bean-bomb, he scratched his nuts and smiled. "It is thus so. All is written."
See Also
- The Complete Text (http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=8600&pageno=1), via Gutenberg Project
