Chekhov on society and discourse
Jan 11, 2014
Life & Society, Sunny's random musings
“What savage manners, what people! What wasted evenings, what tedious, empty days! Frantic card-playing, gluttony, drunkenness, perpetual talk always about the same thing. The greater part of one’s time and energy went on business that was no use to anyone, and on discussing the same thing over and over again, and there was nothing to show for it all but a stunted wingless existence and a round of trivialities, and there was nowhere to escape to, you might as well be in madhouse or a convict settlement.”
Anton Chekhov, in his excellent short story “The Lady with the Dog,” 1899
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