Excerpt from I Sometimes Think: Essays for the Young People That is what I mean to be What do you mean to be P You, who now swim free - some folk think that you swim too free - what will you be, when the time comes for you, even you, in your turn, to be fossilized? The gummed label and the glass-case are waiting for you, and will have you at last. Quod es eram, ouod sum eris. We shall be near neighbours, you and I our adjacent cases will touch: I of the period before the War, you of the period after the War. Between us, the world's upheaval, the deluge. You will bear witness to the changes wrought by that earthquake and flood: to the shattering of old forms of life, the driving of new lines of cleavage deep into the fabric of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.