Le second texte de ce recueil est très court; il s'agit de « Adventures of a novelist » de Stephen Crane.
De manière claire et concise, l'auteur illustre à merveille le fait qu'il ne devrait pas y avoir en termes de justice « deux poids et deux mesures ».
Écrit en 1896, ce texte est (malheureusement) encore totalement d'actualité.
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Apparently the united wisdom of the world declared that no man should do anything but throw his sense of justice to the winds in an affair of this description. « Let a man have a conscience for the daytime, » said the wisdom. « Let him have a conscience for the daytime, but it is idiocy for a man to have a conscience at 2:30 in the morning, in the case of an arrested prostitute. »
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Apparently the united wisdom of the world declared that no man should do anything but throw his sense of justice to the winds in an affair of this description. « Let a man have a conscience for the daytime, » said the wisdom. « Let him have a conscience for the daytime, but it is idiocy for a man to have a conscience at 2:30 in the morning, in the case of an arrested prostitute. »
