Really? Sad. I can remember a time when I slogged through Gulag Archipelago because he seemed to remember all the names of the dead of Soviet communism. It was an amazing achievement.
He wasn’t an easy man; he was down on America, too, even after we gave him asylum. He thought us decadent before we really had become decadent. What did he know that we didn’t?
He looked like Captain Ahab and acted like someone out of the Old Testament. Quite a figure.
“He thought us decadent before we really had become decadent. What did he know that we didn’t?”
That we had become decadent.
What Tom Paine knew over 200 years ago.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.