The Golden Age

The Golden Age Synopsis

Excerpt from The Golden Age: Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish

Practice of vagaries just choosing so' as, for instance, the giving of authority over us to these hopeless and incapable creatures, when it might far more reasonably have been given to ourselves over them. These elders, our bet ters by a trick of chance, commanded no respect, but only a certain blend of envy of their good luck - and pity - for their inability to make use of it. Indeed, it was one of the most hopeless features in their character (when we troubled ourselves to waste a thought on them.

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