Twenty years ago, on 11 September 1999, the American novelist and TV script writer David Karp died. In 1953, he published a small masterpiece entitled ‘One’. It is a story set in a dystopian future about a Mr. Burden, a professor of English, who is working as a spy for a state that is about to make an example of him. This passage is from the first page and sets the tone for the rest of the book:
“It was an odd talent for a professor of English. If his colleagues had been told about it some might have smiled, others would have frowned, and some would have been frightened. None, however, would ever forget that Burden could read lips and all would act accordingly.”
Alberico Collina
“It was an odd talent for a professor of English. If his colleagues had been told about it some might have smiled, others would have frowned, and some would have been frightened. None, however, would ever forget that Burden could read lips and all would act accordingly.”
Alberico Collina
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