Saturday, June 03, 2023
A Once Magnificent House
Mark Helprin, Paris in the Present Tense (New York: The Overlook Press, 2018), p. 217:
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What is France but a once magnificent house now occupied by ignorant squatters. By no means the majority, but enough to destroy the culture and the law. After all the confused, tragic, costly work through war, plague, famine, revolution, and wrong turns, the house stood beautifully nonetheless and with potential unmatched in history. And now they write on the walls, break the windows, and make fires on the floor.
