![]() ![]() ![]() I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it." It's a favourite quotation of mine for many reasons – among them the way it is both so pompous and so not-at-all pompous at the same time – and of course every serious writer thinks exactly the same of his own age. ![]() Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for beauty, execration of literature. F laubert once wrote to Turgenev: "Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. ![]()
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