Verse
Schor, Sandra
Sandra Schor The Doctrine of the Lent Hoar The whole net profit derives from work done during the last hour of a ten-hour day. Nassau Senior,...
...Sandra Schor The Doctrine of the Lent Hoar The whole net profit derives from work done during the last hour of a ten-hour day...
...They do not know the doctrine of the last hour and work for every hour as if the final profitless blast could blow at noon...
...At last...
...Others have just begun...
...I see you, mad as Kafka's hunger artist, on view before a hooting mob with your lunch pail swinging, going to and from the sorrows of a hated job...
...To be alone with gain...
...Soon someone must carry you, like a Victorian child still asleep, to your place at the machine this hour before the last, not to squander a minute's time in the manufacture of your life...
...Is this the hour, the occasion for fit profit-taking, all energies till now murdered in the manufacture of a life...
...Look about you...
...Yet only the final hour renders gain, and through all the others you must endure, endure the long years—time that alters worth and memory, that is your cumulative power, that is your money in the bank...
...Nassau Senior, Nineteenth-century English economist Does the doctrine of the last hour govern your life, cage you in, your hands feverish and constant as electricity until the hour before you die...
Vol. 112 • September 1985 • No. 15
