Jeanette Winterson - I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of...

I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[..] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed of escape - but what is terrible about industrialisation is that it makes escape necessary. In a system that generates masses, individualism is the only way out. But then what happens to community - to society?

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I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[..] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed of escape - but what is terrible about industrialisation is that it makes escape necessary. In a system that generates masses, individualism is the only way out. But then what happens to community - to society? Jeanette Winterson
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teeming mass working class [ ] live die place week seaside dreamed escape - terrible industrialisation makes system generates masses individualism community society

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