The Past is like a funeral gone by
The Future comes like an unwelcomed guest.

Edmund Gosse

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Topic

Past and future The past The future

Author

Edmund Gosse

Source

May-Day

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Gosse, Edmund. "May-Day." On Viol and Flute. London: Henry S. King, 1873.

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He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.

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Author

James Joyce
Source
A Painful Case Dubliners
Medium
Short story
Language
English
Time
1914 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners. Grant Richards, 1914.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners: Centennial Edition, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

George Orwell

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Topic
Dystopian future Totalitarianism The future
Speaker
O'Brien

Author

George Orwell
Source
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Medium
Novel
Genre
Dystopian fiction
Statement Type
Prophecies and predictions
Language
English
Time
1949 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 3, ch. 3.