Nancy Rommelman’s Portland piece, and the quote of the day, from Dostoevsky’s ‘Demons’
I came across this one in the comments section on Nancy Rommelman’s latest piece on Portland in Reason… it applies to Portland, and to America in many ways as well.
“You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one’s whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
“A toy for stupid children.”
Sad!