Wednesday, November 09, 2011

 

Ancient and Holy Simplicities

Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, chapter 12 (describing Max Gottlieb):
But poverty kept him from fulfillment of his summer longing to sit beneath the poplars by the Rhine or the tranquil Seine, at a table on whose checkered cloth were bread and cheese and wine and dusky cherries, those ancient and holy simplicities of all the world.



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