Don’t tell Alfred
Иной раз вся книжка оказывается прочитанной/пролистанной ради единственной цитаты. Например, Don’t tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford:
“There is this out-of-date, non-forward-looking view of life... They have this fixation on literature; they do not seem to realize that the written word has had its day – books are completely outworn concept. We in America, one step ahead of you in Western Europe, have given up buying them altogether. You would never see a woman, or a man, reading a book in the New York subway. Now in the Moscow subway every person is doing so.(...)
“The public of a great modern industrial city ought to be reading magazines or watching television. The Russians are not contemporary; they are not realist; they exude a fusty aroma of the past.” (1960)