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Marx’s Confessions [24•*
| Your favourite virtue: | Simplicity |
" " in man: " " in woman: Your chief characteristic: Your idea of happiness:
" "
p misery:
p The vice you excuse most: " detest most: Your aversion: Favourite occupation: poet:
p “ " prosewriter: hero: heroine: " " flower: " " colour: " " name:
p " dish: Favourite maxim:
Strength Weakness Singleness of purpose To fight Submission Gullibility Servility Martin Tupper [24•** Bookworming Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Goethe Diderot Spartacus, Kepler Gretchen Daphne Red Laura, Jenny Fish Nihil humani a me alienum puto De omnibus dubitandum 25 * * *
Notes
[24•*] Two of the existing three variants of Marx’s confessions are given on pp. 24 and 25. The facsimile on page 25 is taken from an album belonging to Marx’s daughter Jenny.
[24•**] Martin Tupper (1810-1889)-an English writer. Marx regarded him as the personification of banality, whose writings aimed at achieving cheap popularity.