Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
A
repost from March, 2018
Yes, Yes, But They Need Jobs in the Real
World
“Forward Electronics,
your victory’s achieved!
In all communication,
progress is our creed!
Ignorance is darkness,
technology is light!
Radio, our watchword;
radio, our might!”
-Komsomol youth singing
in “For the Good of the Cause,” Solzhenitsyn, 1963
The plans for your construction are precise
The design and engineering are true
The foundations solid, the drains are laid
In mathematics pure, infallible
The offices are bright with light, well-aired
The flow of work geometrically set
The shops and stores convenient to the staff
In tactical practicalities placed
But do you wonder, at night, beneath your lamp -
Why are you building a concentration camp?
