Not the thing
Posted on 19 November 2012
“And it’s not the thing for people of the best society to be too much interested in literature.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot, p. 241
Prince Myshkin’s party discussing Don Quixote and Pushkin. Fun.
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