Monday, June 13, 2022

 

The View from Cambridge

Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955), Across The Wide Missouri (1947; rpt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964), p. 65:
Essentially Wyeth's plan was sound and on paper it looked foolproof. But Nate Wyeth lived in Cambridge, and in Cambridge the world has always seemed simpler, more high-minded, and more amenable to reason than it proves to be when one goes out to mingle with the children of darkness.



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