“The commissioner was silent for a moment. “It was Dickens did this to you,” he said at last. “Gave you ideas above your station, didn’t he.” “Dickens? Not him, sir. I’d say the greater influence on my current thinking would be Mr. Karl Marx.” “Karl Marx? Indeed.” “Indeed, sir. Herr Marx urged me personally to stop waiting beneath your bloody table for the bleeding crumbs to fall.”
