I chose laghnston Hughes for my modernist author, and I can imagine him as a human being. I can imagine him going home, kicking off his shoes and sitting down to write. I think he'd want to be remembered by his writing.

"Utopias seem to be much more achievable than we formerly believed them to be. Now we find ourselves presented with another alarming question: how do we prevent utopias from coming into existence? …Utopias are possible. Life tends towards the formation of utopias. Perhaps a new century will begin, a century in which intellectuals and the privileged will dream of ways to eliminate utopias and return to a non-utopic society less “perfect” and more free.”