What he said.

[infrogmation]

"Times are not good here. The city is crumbling [....] Its condition is so bad that when I write about it, as I intend to do soon, nobody will believe I am telling the truth. But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes, than to own the whole state of Ohio."

-- Lafcadio Hearn, letter from New Orleans to a friend in Cincinnati