“The future, wave or no wave, seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.”

—  E. B. White

A review of The Wave of the Future by Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Harpers Magazine (December 1940)
One Man's Meat (1942)

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