《More Stately Mansions 》作者：- Robert F. Young【EPUB】

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More Stately Mansions a novelet by ROBERT F YOUNG The poor girl and the rich man's son faced an age-old problem . . . and each with a different idea of happiness A.D. 2150-2200: Man had at last pinned down happiness. He no longer visualized it symbolically as a bluebird that was forever flitting just be-yond his reach: he visualized it solidly as a house, and his status in his society was commensurate to the number of bricks or the number of board feet his house contained. Now if a society which reveres beauty respects artists and if a society which reveres ideas respects philosophers, a society which reveres buildings cannot fail to respect builders. Add to this propensity the incontrovertible fact that real estate values had been on an upward spiral for the past two hundred years plus the equally incontrovertible fact that construction unions had been growing progressively stronger for a similar length of time, and you have some con-ception of the aristocracy which flour-ished during the latter part of the twen-ty-second century